The amsterdam declaration on fungal nomenclature.
The Amsterdam Declaration on Fungal Nomenclature was agreed at an international symposium convened in Amsterdam on 19-20 April 2011 under the auspices of the International Commission on the Taxonomy of Fungi (ICTF). The purpose of the symposium was to address the issue of whether or how the current system of naming pleomorphic fungi should be maintained or changed now that molecular data are routinely available. The issue is urgent as mycologists currently follow different practices, and no consensus was achieved by a Special Committee appointed in 2005 by the International Botanical Congress to advise on the problem. The Declaration recognizes the need for an orderly transitition to a single-name nomenclatural system for all fungi, and to provide mechanisms to protect names that otherwise then become endangered. That is, meaning that priority should be given to the first described name, except where that is a younger name in general use when the first author to select a name of a pleomorphic monophyletic genus is to be followed, and suggests controversial cases are referred to a body, such as the ICTF, which will report to the Committee for Fungi. If appropriate, the ICTF could be mandated to promote the implementation of the Declaration. In addition, but not forming part of the Declaration, are reports of discussions held during the symposium on the governance of the nomenclature of fungi, and the naming of fungi known only from an environmental nucleic acid sequence in particular. Possible amendments to the Draft BioCode (2011) to allow for the needs of mycologists are suggested for further consideration, and a possible example of how a fungus only known from the environment might be described is presented.
Departamento de Biología Vegetal II, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Plaza Ramón y Cajal, E-28040 Madrid, Spain; and Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK;
David L
DL
Hawksworth
Pedro W
PW
Crous
Scott A
SA
Redhead
Don R
DR
Reynolds
Robert A
RA
Samson
Keith A
KA
Seifert
John W
JW
Taylor
Michael J
MJ
Wingfield
Ozlem
O
Abaci
Catherine
C
Aime
Ahmet
A
Asan
Feng-Yan
FY
Bai
Z Wilhelm
ZW
de Beer
Dominik
D
Begerow
Derya
D
Berikten
Teun
T
Boekhout
Peter K
PK
Buchanan
Treena
T
Burgess
Walter
W
Buzina
Lei
L
Cai
Paul F
PF
Cannon
J Leland
JL
Crane
Ulrike
U
Damm
Heide-Marie
HM
Daniel
Anne D
AD
van Diepeningen
Irina
I
Druzhinina
Paul S
PS
Dyer
Ursula
U
Eberhardt
Jack W
JW
Fell
Jens C
JC
Frisvad
David M
DM
Geiser
József
J
Geml
Chirlei
C
Glienke
Tom
T
Gräfenhan
Johannes Z
JZ
Groenewald
Marizeth
M
Groenewald
Johannes
J
de Gruyter
Eveline
E
Guého-Kellermann
Liang-Dong
LD
Guo
David S
DS
Hibbett
Seung-Beom
SB
Hong
G Sybren
GS
de Hoog
Jos
J
Houbraken
Sabine M
SM
Huhndorf
Kevin D
KD
Hyde
Ahmed
A
Ismail
Peter R
PR
Johnston
Duygu G
DG
Kadaifciler
Paul M
PM
Kirk
Urmas
U
Kõljalg
Cletus P
CP
Kurtzman
Paul-Emile
PE
Lagneau
C André
CA
Lévesque
Xingzhong
X
Liu
Lorenzo
L
Lombard
Wieland
W
Meyer
Andrew
A
Miller
David W
DW
Minter
Mohammad Javad
MJ
Najafzadeh
Lorelei
L
Norvell
Svetlana M
SM
Ozerskaya
Rasime
R
Oziç
Shaun R
SR
Pennycook
Stephen W
SW
Peterson
Olga V
OV
Pettersson
William
W
Quaedvlieg
Vincent A
VA
Robert
Constantino
C
Ruibal
Johan
J
Schnürer
Hans-Josef
HJ
Schroers
Roger
R
Shivas
Bernard
B
Slippers
Henk
H
Spierenburg
Masako
M
Takashima
Evrim
E
Taşkın
Marco
M
Thines
Ulf
U
Thrane
Alev Haliki
AH
Uztan
Marcel
M
van Raak
János
J
Varga
Aida
A
Vasco
Gerard
G
Verkley
Sandra I R
SI
Videira
Ronald P
RP
de Vries
Bevan S
BS
Weir
Neriman
N
Yilmaz
Andrey
A
Yurkov
Ning
N
Zhang