[Taxacom] New paper: Ruggiero et al. "A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms"

[Tony Rees]

Dear Taxacomers,

Since I did not see this mentioned on Taxacom earlier (perhaps I missed
it), list members may be interested to know that Michael Ruggiero et al.'s
paper "A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms" has been out
in PLOS One since 20 April 2015, the link is here:

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0119248

This is an internally consistent treatment of "all" extant taxa down to the
level of Order (in most cases), to be followed in future by both ITIS and
Catalogue of Life I understand. For those interested in going further to
the level of family, I have come across a spreadsheet with the latter
information prepared by the same authors (possibly slightly earlier
version) labelled "GGI family data" at http://ggi.eol.org/downloads .

Of course the above treatments do not include fossil orders/families but
maybe these will be in scope at some point in the future (??)

Hoping this is of interest to at least some Taxacom readers,

Best regards - Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia