Maintenance Notice

December 24, 2020

December 2020 release (20201224) of the NamesforLife taxonomy is now available for subscribers

Release 20201224 contains 295,784 records including 14,747 assemblies that were verified as sourced from 10,953 type strains with validly published names; 6,302 type strains were represented by two or more genome assemblies.

During 2020, there were a total of 7,388 changes in prokaryotic taxonomy and nomenclature as compared to Release 20191204 including; 1,559 novel taxa, 24 replacement names, 15 rank elevations, 33 rank reductions, 750 new combinations, 3 correction, 2 neotypes, 4,179 transfers of taxa and 822 changes in the preferred names appearing in the NamesforLife condensed taxonomy.

December 2020 Release Notes (238kB PDF)

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