Australian Faunal Directory: What's New

August 2007

One taxonomic Group, with taxa in Ostracoda was loaded.

Feb to May 2007

Updates made to Malacostraca: Decapoda, Symphyta, Trichoptera, Psocoptera, Byrrhoidea, Tenebrionoidea, Papilionoidea, and Aphidoidea.
One taxonomic Group, with taxa in Bostrichoidea: Dermestidae was loaded.

Jan 2007

Three groups of Pisces and the Agnatha were updated with the Names information only.

Aug / Sept / Oct 2006

Three subfamilies of the Noctuoidea: Noctuidae have been added.
Updates made to Araneae, Chrysomeloidea, Reptilia, Trichoptera, Plecoptera, Malacostraca: Decapoda and Porifera.
Free-living marine nematodes where added to the the Nematoda (part).
One taxonomic Group, with taxa in Symphyta: Xiphydrioidea was updated.
One additional family Agromyzidae was added to Diptera: Cyclorrhapha: (Acalyptrata: Part).
One additional family Diaspididae was added to Hemiptera: Coccoidea.

May 2006

Two taxonomic Groups, with taxa in Chaetognatha and Branchiopoda (part) were loaded.
Two taxonomic Groups, with taxa in Lepidoptera: Castnioidea & Zygaenidae (part) were loaded.
Updates made to Apoidea, Cercopoidea, Membracoidea, Fulgoroidea and Malacostraca were loaded.

March 2006

One taxonomic Group, with taxa in Coleoptera: Chrysomeloidea: Chrysomelidae, Megalopodidae was loaded.
One additional family Platystomatidae was added to Superfamily Tephritoidea.
Small updates made to Marsupialia and Eutheria.

February 2006

Three groups of Pisces and the Agnatha were loaded in Draft format with the Names information only.
Small updates made to Amphibia and Thysanoptera.
One taxonomic Group, with taxa in Orthoptera was updated.

November 2005

One taxonomic Group, with taxa in Aphidoidea was loaded.

October 2005

Two taxonomic Groups, with taxa in Tunicata and Thysanoptera were updated .

September 2005

One taxonomic Group, with taxa in Porifera was updated.

June 2005

One taxonomic Group, with taxa in Diptera: Orthorrhapha was updated.
Two additional taxonomic Groups, with taxa in Kamptozoa and Sipuncula were loaded.

May 2005

Two pre-existing taxonomic Groups, with taxa in Peracarida and Thysanoptera were updated.

April 2005

Two additional taxonomic Groups, with taxa in Reptilia and Echiura were loaded.
An additional family, Megascolecidae (earthworms) has been added to Oligochaeta.

March 2005

One additional taxonomic Group, with taxa in Platyhelminthes: Cestoda was loaded.

January 2005

One additional taxonomic Group, with taxa in Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea (Part) was loaded.

December 2004

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How to cite ABRS Online Resources e.g. AFD, is now available.
One pre-existing taxonomic Group, with taxa in Nematocera: Chironomidae was updated.

October 2004

The URL for the Australian Faunal Directory changed to: http://www.deh.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/
One additional taxonomic Group, with taxa in Mollusca: Non marine mollusca (excl. pulmonates) was loaded.
Two pre-existing taxonomic Groups, with taxa in Annelida: Oligochaeta and Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones were updated.

July 2004

One pre-existing taxonomic Group, with taxa in Coleoptera: Hydrophiloidea was updated.
The Australian Faunal Directory altered to comply with the Department of the Environment and Heritage new web pages style.
Links added to the Australian Biodiversity Information Facility (ABIF).

May 2004

One additional taxonomic Group, with taxa in Annelida: Oligochaeta (part) was loaded.
One pre-existing taxonomic Group, with taxa in Hemiptera: Cicadoidea was updated.

April 2004

Eight additional taxonomic Groups, with taxa in Crustacea: Malacostraca (Part 1), Crustacea: Malacostraca (Part 2): Syncarida, Crustacea: Malacostraca (Part 3): Peracarida, Hemiptera: Pentatomomorpha, Coleoptera: Buprestoidea, Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea (Part), Hymenoptera: Mymarommatidae, Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea were loaded.

January 2004

One pre-existing taxonomic Group, with taxa in Hemiptera: Psylloidea (Jumping Plant Lice, Lerps) was updated.

December 2003

Further families added in Hemiptera: Coccoidea (Coccoids, Mealy Bugs, Scale Insects).
One additional taxonomic Group, with taxa in Nematoda: Aphelenchida (Nematodes, Roundworms) was loaded.

August 2003

One additional taxonomic Group, with taxa in Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea (Chrysidid Wasps) was loaded.
Three pre-existing taxonomic Groups, including taxa in Polychaeta, Trichoptera (Caddis Flies) and Araneomorphae were updated.

June 2003

One additional taxonomic Group, with taxa in Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Diaspididae (Armoured Scales) was loaded.
One pre-existing taxonomic Group, with taxa in Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea (Dung Beetles, Christmas Beetles) was updated.
The web pages have been altered to use the ABRS standard header, footer and navigation.

March 2003

One additional taxonomic Group, with taxa in Myriapoda: Chilopoda (Centipedes) was loaded.

February 2003

Three additional taxonomic Groups, including taxa in Amphibia, Coleoptera and Hymenoptera, were loaded.
Three pre-existing taxonomic Groups, including taxa in Hymenoptera and Cephalopoda were updated.

July 2002

Twenty four additional taxonomic Groups, including taxa in Crustacea, Myriapoda, Hemiptera, Coleoptera, Diptera, Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera, Amphibia and Aves, were loaded.
The update includes an additional 374 families, 3,624 genera and 17,108 species. Nearly 39,000 species are now available on the Australian Faunal Directory site.
Bibliographies for Mollusca (~7,000) and Lepidoptera (~1,700) are available through the Groups page and the new Bibliographic search facility.
Search page has been updated and two new search facilities added: bibliographic and host-taxon search. Try them!
All graphics have been updated and improved across the Australian Faunal Directory. More are in preparation.
Details of Taxa Databased and Estimated Numbers in the Australian Fauna statistics updated.
Platypus v 3.3 released

January 2002

Five additional taxonomic Groups: Aplacophora, Polyplacophora, Scaphopoda, Cephalopoda and Echinodermata, Braconidae, comprising 170 families, 761 genera, 2,221 species, loaded.
Groups page: Details of Taxa Databased and Estimated Numbers in the Australian Fauna updated and links included to interchange between pages for a given taxon group.
Format of the Australian Faunal Directory page improved.
Glossaries: New pages added to include a list of Museums and their acronyms used in the Australian Faunal Directory. Lists are alphabetically by the museum/institution acronyms and also by museum/institution names. Links are provided to interchange between pages. Ecology glossary updated.
Links to other websites page updated.
Platypus v. 3.2.5 released.

May 2001

A considerable amount of new data added to the Australian Faunal Directory (AFD) web site and many parts have been upgraded.
Twelve additional taxonomic Groups, comprising 503 families, 2,134 genera, 6,769 species and some 7,000 bibliographic references, loaded.
Some 42% of the estimated described fauna known from Australia is databased, mostly at Catalogue level. Nearly 19,000 species are now available on the AFD site and we hope to make a further 15-20,000 species available in 2002.
The Main Checklist to family updated and new links added.
Download a checklist. This new feature provides users with the option to download a checklist of any group either as a Rich Text file or an HTML table for import into a spreadsheet programme such as MS Excel.
Maps to show world distribution of taxa at genus and species group levels are now available.
In the groups page, the Summary of the Australian Fauna is now split into the Estimated Numbers of the Australian Fauna and the Details of Taxa Databased and has been updated.
Taxon statistics for each group included in the Level 1 Introduction.
Context-sensitive links from the data to the Format of the Australian Faunal Directory included.
Users are encouraged to investigate the Advanced Search and see how various options can be used to obtain information such as a bibliographic reference or to list introduced taxa or to list the types for a selected group in a selected museum.