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List of biological species in China in 2019

Dataset Overview

Biodiversity is an important national strategic resource and an irreplaceable material base in the sustainable development of social economy. In order to protect biodiversity and build ecological civilization, we must know how many species there are in China and what species there are. Since 2008, the Chinese Academy of Sciences has organized more than 100 taxonomic experts to catalogue and study the species published in China based on specimens and documents, and update them annually in the form of annual list, which is publicly released to the public, so as to provide free names and classification distribution information of China's animals, plants, fungi and other taxonomic groups for global users. China is the only country in the world that publishes the annual list of biological species every year. CoL-China is also listed as the data source by the "Catalog of Life" compiled by international Species 2000, which has a wide range of influence at home and abroad. CoL-China collects and sorts out taxonomic information in strict accordance with the international species 2000 standard. In the list, each species contains Latin scientific name, Chinese name, synonym, alias, distribution area, classification system and related literature information. Each data is validated by taxonomists and shared with CoL. There are more than 100000 species and infaspecific units in 2019 annual checklist of CoL-China, reaching 106509, including 94260 species and 12249 infraspecific units.

Dataset Details

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Product Number: XDA19050202_108

Create Institution: Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Created By: Editorial group of CoL-China

Creation Date: 2021-09-25T16:00:00.000Z

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Type Of Data: Text

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Paper Citation

The Biodiversity Committee of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2021, Catalogue of Life China: 2021 Annual Checklist, Beijing, China.

Data Citation

The Biodiversity Committee of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2021, Catalogue of Life China: 2021 Annual Checklist, Beijing, China.

Data Licence Agreement

his database on standalone application is copyrighted by Species 2000 China Node on behalf of the Catalogue of Life China partners.

Use of the content (such as the classification, synonymic species checklist, and scientific names) for publications and databases by individuals and organizations for not-for-profit usage is encouraged, on condition that full and precise credit is given at three levels on all occasions that records are shown. The three levels credit the complete work, the contributing database of the record, and the expert who provides taxonomic scrutiny of the individual record. For example, these might be as follows:

1) Species 2000 China Node Catalogue of Life China: 2021 Annual Checklist China,

2) The full or short name or logo of the contributing database, such as: China Checklist of Higher Plants

3) When provided, the latest taxonomic scrutiny field (specialist name & date), such as Fumin Lei, 30-April-2019 (from China Animal Scientific database).

If you wish to use the content on a public portal or webpage you are required to notify the Secretariat of Species 2000 China Node, both to request written permission and to assist with a check that the correct credits are given.

Commercial use of this compilation or any of the species datasets contained within, such as replication of the Standalone application for sale, or dissemination on the Internet, requires written permission from Species 2000 China Node.

If you wish to use the content on a public portal or webpage you are required to notify the Secretariat of Species 2000 China Node, both to request written permission and to assist with a check that the correct credits are given.

Funded Projects

Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. XDA19050200).