Vasily Radashevsky:
> Having just one species list with up-to-date names and all sorts of linked
> information probably seems to be idyllic but not so bad idea!
I'd be rather surprised if Vasily is unaware there is such a project
underway for many years. It's widely known (it was for instance the subject
of a poster at the 1992 conference). It's up to the workers concerned
whether they wish to comment at this moment.
Regardless of how that's progressing, and regardless of whatever regional
lists appear (or have appeared) for Species 2000 and many other
purposes, there is nothing to stop other specialists from planning to
release to the public their own activities in databasing particular families
worldwide - if they have the time, money, inclination, and the altruism,
especially the altruism.
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Geoff Read <g.read at niwa.cri.nz>
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