Antunes Carvalho Fernanda, Filer Denis, Renner Susanne S
Systematic Botany and Mycology, University of Munich (LMU), Menzinger Strasse 67, 80638, Munich, Germany.
Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3RB, UK.
Cladistics. 2015 Jun;31(3):321-329. doi: 10.1111/cla.12095. Epub 2014 Aug 13.
The need for taxonomists to take full advantage of biodiversity informatics has been clear for at least 10 years. Significant progress has been made in providing access to taxonomic resources online, including images of specimens (especially types), original species descriptions, and georeferenced collection data. However, in spite of persuasive calls for e-monography, there are few, if any, completed project, even though monographic research is the only mechanism for reducing synonymous names, which are estimated to comprise 50% of all published names. Caricaceae is an economically important family of flowering plants from Africa and the Neotropics, best known for the fruit crop papaya. There is a large amount of information on the family, especially on chemistry, crop improvement, genomics, and the sex chromosomes of papaya, but up-to-date information on the 230 names and which species they might belong to was not available. A dynamically updated e-monograph of the Caricaceae now brings together all information on this family, including keys, species descriptions, and specimen data relating the 230 names to 34 species and one hybrid. This may be the first taxonomic monograph of a plant family completely published online. The curated information will be continuously updated to improve the monograph's comprehensiveness and utility.
至少十年来，分类学家充分利用生物多样性信息学的必要性已经很明显。在提供在线分类资源访问方面已经取得了重大进展，包括标本图像（特别是模式标本）、原始物种描述和地理参考采集数据。然而，尽管有人强烈呼吁开展电子专著，但即使有也是极少有已完成的项目，尽管专著研究是减少同义名的唯一机制，据估计同义名占所有已发表名称的50%。番木瓜科是一个在经济上很重要的开花植物科，原产于非洲和新热带地区，以水果作物木瓜最为人所知。关于这个科有大量信息，特别是关于木瓜的化学、作物改良、基因组学和性染色体方面的信息，但关于230个名称以及它们可能所属的物种的最新信息却没有。现在，一部动态更新的番木瓜科电子专著汇集了关于这个科的所有信息，包括检索表、物种描述以及将这230个名称与34个物种和一个杂交种相关联的标本数据。这可能是第一部完全在线发表的植物科分类专著。经过整理的信息将不断更新，以提高专著的全面性和实用性。
