title: [Addendum and emendation of "China Medicinal Animal Fauna"].
abstract: To carry out the " China Medicinal Animal Fauna" addenda and revision, with effective assessment, protection, utilization of medicinal animal resources, to promote sustainable modem research and application for medicinal animals and medical materials from animals.
  
  
  METHODS
  Keep the original "China Medicinal Animal Fauna" characteristics and peculiarities, combined with nearly 30-year research progress of zoology and medicinal animals, and author's long-standing and rich experience.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Develop the addenda's general framework, addenda and revision contents, revision methods and technical routes of the "China Medicinal Animal Fauna".
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Based on the research of medicinal animal resource system, fully use of modern molecular biology and other emerging science and technology, rich the scientific connotation of medicinal material from animal, will promote the research and use of medical material from animal to a new level.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100700, China. huangluqi@263.net
authors.forename: Luqi
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Junde
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Shihuan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002681:China; D056890:Eukaryota / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D012014:Reference Books, Medical