[Taxacom] Sherborn & literature code challenge

[Francisco Welter-Schultes]

Dick,

> I have yet to find any on-line database where one can find not only 
> the original combination for a taxon but also author and date (which 
> is necessary to locate the original description and therefore know 
> what a the name represents).  

For the pre-1790 names see 
http://www.animalbase.org 
Contains original combinations, authors, true dates and links to the 
original sources, in digitised versions provided by public servers, 
often BHL or our own scans.

We added also comments if our own data deviated from those of 
Sherborn's index (we screened Sherborn and the original sources 
simultaneously, about 45,000 names have been checked by this method).

Francisco


University of Goettingen, Germany
www.animalbase.org