Index Fungorum, Species Fungorum and MycoBank are the key fungal nomenclature and taxonomic databases that can be sourced to find taxonomic details concerning fungi, while DNA sequence data can be sourced from the NCBI, EBI and UNITE databases. Nomenclature and ecological data on freshwater fungi can be accessed on http://fungi.life.illinois.edu/, while http://www.marinespecies.org/provides a comprehensive list of names of marine organisms, including information on their synonymy. Previous websites however have little information on marine fungi and their ecology, beside articles that deal with marine fungi, especially those published in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries may not be accessible to those working in third world countries. To address this problem, a new website www.marinefungi.org was set up and is introduced in this paper. This website provides a search facility to genera of marine fungi, full species descriptions, key to species and illustrations, an up to date classification of all recorded marine fungi which includes all fungal groups (Ascomycota, Basidiomycota, Blastocladiomycota, Chytridiomycota, Mucoromycota and fungus-like organisms e.g. Thraustochytriales), and listing recent publications. Currently, 1257 species are listed in the marine fungi website (www.marinefungi.org), in 539 genera, 74 orders, 168 families, 20 classes and five phyla, with new taxa continuing to be described. The website has curators with specialist mycological expertise who help to provide update data on the classification of marine fungi. This article also reviews knowledge of marine fungi covering a wide range of topics: their higher classification, ecology and world distribution, role in energy transfer in the oceans, origin and new chemical structures. An updated classification of marine fungi is also included. We would like to invite all mycologists to contribute to this innovative website.

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海洋真菌在线资源

Index Fungorum，Species Fungorum和MycoBank是关键的真菌命名法和分类数据库，可用于查找有关真菌的分类学详细信息，而DNA序列数据可从NCBI，EBI和UNITE数据库获得。可以在http://fungi.life.illinois.edu/上获取淡水真菌的命名法和生态学数据，而http://www.marinespecies.org/提供了有关海洋生物名称的完整列表，包括有关其同义词的信息。但是，除了有关海洋真菌的文章，尤其是在19世纪和20世纪初发表的文章，在第三世界国家工作的人可能无法访问以前的网站，有关海洋真菌及其生态的信息很少。为了解决这个问题，本文建立了一个新的网站www.marinefungi.org。该网站提供了搜索海洋真菌属的工具，完整的物种描述，物种和插图的关键，所有记录的海洋真菌的最新分类，其中包括所有真菌类（子囊菌，担子菌，Blastocladiomycota，Chytridiomycota，Mucoromycota和真菌- （例如，破囊壶菌）等生物，并列出最近的出版物。目前，海洋真菌网站（www.marinefungi.org）上列出了1257种，共539个属，74个目，168个科，20类和5个门，并不断描述新的分类单元。该网站的策展人具有专业的真菌学专业知识，可帮助提供有关海洋真菌分类的最新数据。本文还回顾了有关海洋真菌的知识，涵盖了广泛的主题：其较高的分类，生态学和世界分布，在海洋中的能量转移，起源和新化学结构中扮演重要角色。还包括海洋真菌的最新分类。我们希望邀请所有真菌学家为这个创新的网站做出贡献。