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taxonomic and nomenclatural data about Gymnodiniales

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gymnodiniales

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taxonomic and nomenclatural data about Gymnodiniales All files have utf-8 encoding.

This repository contains taxonomic and nomenclatural data about Gymnodiniales. It is based on Thessen et al. 2012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0044015 with additional work.

speciesNarrative A human readable narrative describing the history of a taxon. The references cited within this file are in the references.txt file.

currentNames A list of the current, accepted names of Gymnodinium with authority and year.

pastGymno A tab-delimited file with three columns and a column header. This file contains a list of all Gymnodinium names that are no longer accepted as Gymnodinium. All references cited in this file are in the references.txt file.

extinct A tab-delimited file with three columns and a column header. This file contains a list of extinct Gymnodinium. All references cited in this file are in the references.txt file.

references A numbered list of all the bibliographic references that are cited in the other files.

rejectNames A list of Gymnodinium names rejected based on Thessen et al. 2012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0044015

species_descriptions.txt A text file containing the published taxon descriptions in xml

dwc A Darwin Core Archive containing all Gymnodinium name strings and their current, valid names

Acknowledgements

The following are the acknowledgements from the PLoS ONE paper.

The authors would like to acknowledge the staff at the MBL WHOI Library in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA, the New York Botanical Garden Library, the University of North Carolina Kenan Science Library and the Suzugamine Women’s College Library, Japan, Sophie Gechijian, Fernando Gomez, Luidmila Ilyash and Yasuwo Fukuyo for their assistance in obtaining original descriptions, Mona Hoppenrath for commenting on an early version and Anya Shipunova for help with Russian translation. Susan Carty and one anonymous reviewer made excellent comments that greatly improved the quality of this manuscript. AlgaeBase (www.algaebase.org) and CEDiT (www.dinophyta.org) are excellent references that provided valuable information.

Modifications on this data set after the publication of the PLoS ONE paper were made by Anne E Thessen with important contributions from Fernando Gómez and Mike Guiry.