MycoBank is an online database, documenting new
mycological
Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungi, including their genetic and biochemical properties, their taxonomy and their use to humans, including as a source for tinder, traditional medicine, food, and entheogens, as w ...
names and combinations, eventually combined with descriptions and illustrations. It is run by the
Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute in
Utrecht
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Each novelty, after being screened by ]nomenclatural
Nomenclature (, ) is a system of names or terms, or the rules for forming these terms in a particular field of arts or sciences. The principles of naming vary from the relatively informal conventions of everyday speech to the internationally ag ...
experts and found in accordance with the ICN (), is allocated a unique MycoBank number before the new name has been validly published. This number then can be cited by the naming author in the publication where the new name is being introduced. Only then, this unique number becomes public in the database.
By doing so, this system can help solve the problem of knowing which names have been validly published and in which year.
MycoBank is linked to other important mycological databases such as '' Index Fungorum'', Life Science Identifiers, Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) and other databases. MycoBank is one of three nomenclatural repositories recognized by the Nomenclature Committee for Fungi; the others are ''Index Fungorum'' and Fungal Names.
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Further reading
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External links
* {{Official website
Mycology
Online taxonomy databases