Taxonomic mycology struggles with what seems to be a perpetual shortage of resources. Logically, fungal taxonomists should therefore leverage every opportunity to highlight and visualize the importance of taxonomic work, the usefulness of taxonomic data far beyond taxonomy, and the integrative and collaborative nature of modern taxonomy at large. Is mycology really doing that, though? In this study, we went through ten years’ worth (2009–2018) of species descriptions of extant fungal taxa – 1,097 studies describing at most ten new species – in five major mycological journals plus one plant journal. We estimated the frequency at which a range of key words, illustrations, and concepts related to ecology, geography, taxonomy, molecular data, and data availability were provided with the descriptions. We also considered a range of science-demographical aspects such as gender bias and the rejuvenation of taxonomy and taxonomists as well as public availability of the results. Our results show that the target audience of fungal species descriptions appears to be other fungal taxonomists, because many aspects of the new species were presented only implicitly, if at all. Although many of the parameters we estimated show a gradual, and in some cases marked, change for the better over time, they still paint a somewhat bleak picture of mycological taxonomy as a male-dominated field where the wants and needs of an extended target audience are often not understood or even considered. This study hopes to leave a mark on the way fungal species are described by putting the focus on ways in which fungal taxonomy can better anticipate the end users of species descriptions – be they mycologists, other researchers, the public at large, or even algorithms. In the end, fungal taxonomy, too, is likely to benefit from such measures.

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当真菌学家描述新物种时，并未提供所有相关信息（足够清晰）

分类真菌学一直困扰着似乎永远缺乏资源的问题。因此，从逻辑上讲，真菌分类学家应该抓住一切机会，突出并形象地显示分类工作的重要性，分类数据的有用性（远远超出分类法）以及整个现代分类法的整合和协作性质。真菌学确实在这样做吗？在这项研究中，我们在五种主要的真菌学期刊和一份植物期刊中对现存真菌类群的物种描述进行了为期十年（2009-2018年）的研究（1,097个研究描述了最多十个新物种）。我们估计了在说明中提供与生态，地理，分类学，分子数据和数据可用性相关的一系列关键词，插图和概念的频率。我们还考虑了一系列科学人口统计方面的问题，例如性别偏见，分类学和分类学家的复兴以及结果的公开性。我们的结果表明，真菌物种描述的目标受众似乎是其他真菌分类学家，因为新物种的许多方面（如果有的话）只是隐式呈现。尽管我们估算的许多参数随着时间的推移逐渐变化，并在某些情况下显示出一定的改善，但它们仍将真菌学分类学描绘得有些黯淡，这是男性占主导地位的领域，扩展了目标受众的需求往往不被理解甚至不被考虑。这项研究希望通过将真菌分类法更好地预测物种描述的最终用户的方式（真菌学家，其他研究人员，整个公众甚至算法），在真菌物种的描述方式上留下印记。最后，真菌分类法也可能会受益于此类措施。