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The National Checklist of Taiwan

Dataset homepage

Citation

Tsai S (2020). The National Checklist of Taiwan. Version 1.6. Taiwan Biodiversity Information Facility (TaiBIF). Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/auw1kd accessed via GBIF.org on 2021-03-02.

Description

The catalogue of Taiwanese species is call "TaiCoL" (formerly TaiBNET) and the national node of GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility) in Taiwan is called "TaiBIF". Currently, the websites have been established at Academia Sinica (http://taibnet.sinica.edu.tw and https://portal.taibif.tw). Both of the Biodiversity Research Center and the Computing Center of Academia Sinica are in charge of the maintenance and the updating biodiversity related information and data. Through the node, the background of participating GBIF, related documents, news, upcoming conferences, name list of Taiwanese taxonomists, catalogue of life in Taiwan, specimen database, biodiversity related organization, team research projects, independent biological databases, natural heritage, and local publications etc. can be accessed. Among them, "Name list of Taiwanese taxonomists" and "Catalogue of Life of Taiwan" are one promoting project sponsored by government. So far, 274 local taxonomists have included their titles, telephones, e-mail addresses, and the taxa that they expertise. In the future, we hope to include all of the ecologists or the applied scientists in agriculture, forestry, fishery, and animal husbandry in the name list. The first phase of Catalogue of Life in Taiwan will contain the following items of animals (including insects), plants, and fungi: species names, authors and year, suggested Chinese names, endemic in Taiwan or not, their classification hierarchy, the most authorized citation proving that particular species has occurred in Taiwan. Users can get the name list of one group of organisms through keywords search, species name searching, or image searching etc. Further information of each species can be obtained through the hyperlink to more than 18 well-known global databases or networks, such as Species2000 and ITIS etc. Right now, more than 30,000 species have been compiled, and we hope to collect more than 60,000 species by July 2004. Species checklist of the microorganisms will be included next year. We hope to get more funding and collaborators in the next phase to collect specimen or ecological photos (endemic species first), description (morphology, ecology and biology), geographical distribution, synonyms, literatures, as well as deposited specimen data for each species. Through this node, the most authorized information of high biodiversity and endemism of Taiwan can be exchanged and shared with other GBIF participants. This mission is also requested by both of the Convention on Biological Diversity and GBIF to each member because in such a way, education, research, and conservation of biodiversity in the world could be promoted effectively.

Taxonomic Coverages

Geographic Coverages

Taiwan island and adjacent islets.

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Sz-Yi Tsai
originator
position: Database Administrator
Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica
128 Sec 2, Academia Rd., Nangang Dist.
Taipei
115
TAIWAN
TW
Telephone: +886 2 27872220 28
email: auszyi@gmail.com
homepage: http://taicol.tw
Sz-Yi Tsai
metadata author
position: Database Administrator
Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica
128 Sec 2, Academia Rd., Nangang Dist.
Taipei
115
TAIWAN
TW
Telephone: +886 2 27872220 28
email: zoskt@gate.sinica.edu.tw
homepage: http://taibnet.sinica.edu.tw
Jack Lin
programmer
position: Software Engineer
Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica
128 Sec 2, Academia Rd., Nangang Dist.
Taipei
115
TW
Telephone: +886 2 27899161
email: jacklin@gate.sinica.edu.tw
homepage: http://taibnet.sinica.edu.tw
Kwang-Tsao Shao
administrative point of contact
position: Research Fellow
Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica
128 Sec 2, Academia Rd., Nangang Dist.
Taipei
115
TAIWAN
TW
Telephone: +886 932152991
email: zoskt@gate.sinica.edu.tw
homepage: http://taibnet.sinica.edu.tw
Kuo-Fang Chung
administrative point of contact
position: Associate Research Fellow
Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica
128 Sec 2, Academia Rd., Nangang Dist.
Taipei
115
TAIWAN
TW
email: bochung@sinica.edu.tw
homepage: http://www.biodiv.tw/tw/人員/研究人員/鍾國芳
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