Index to Organism Names
Abbreviation | ION |
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Formation | 2000 |
Headquarters | Clarivate Analytics |
Website | www |
The Index to Organism Names (ION) is an extensive compendium of
History
ION was initially developed as a freely available, web accessible component of a larger project, "TRITON" (the Taxonomy Resource and Index To Organism Names system) by BIOSIS, the then publishers of the
By 2006, the BIOSIS products had been purchased by Thomson Scientific, subsequently
Included content
In its initial release, the Index contained content from Zoological Record dating back to 1978, which was subsequently extended to the full span of the Zoological Record commencing in 1864. In 2011, Nigel Robinson of Thomson Reuters described an in-progress upgrade of the database to include an additional >200,000 names from a digitised version of Sherborn's Index Animalium, extending the content of ION back to the commencement of official zoological nomenclature in 1758.[3][4] As at 2019, the Index contained over 2 million newly published names from 1758 onwards (with a small gap around the period 1850-1864 corresponding to the difference between the end of coverage of Index Animalium and the commencement of the "Zoological Record"), out of a total complement of over 5 million name instances, each with an associated unique numeric identifier (ION LSID).[5]
References
- ^ "Index to Organism Names - archived copy 2001-03-20". Archived from the original on 2001-03-20. Retrieved 2019-08-24.
- ^ "Index to Organism Names - archived copy 2007-11-17". Archived from the original on 2007-11-17. Retrieved 2019-08-24.
- ^ Robinson, Nigel. 2011. "Sherborn's Index Animalium integration into ION: access to all." Powerpoint presentation, available at https://www.slideshare.net/iczn/4-sherborns-index-animalium-integration-into-ion.
- PMID 26877657.
- ^ "Index to Organism Names - Graphs of new taxa over time". www.organismnames.com. Retrieved 2019-09-12.
External links
- ION online search interface
- BioNames home page (R. Page enhanced version of the ION dataset)