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Historic notes related to early
postings of GenBank accession numbers related to certain voucher
collections.
Legacy News (from old "Amanita
Studies" site, fragmentary)
2-7 May 2020
Merger of two pages: Due to new data from the probable holotype
of
Amanita huijsmanii (Hanss & Moreau, 2020 [2017]), the provisional name
A. sp-PORT02 is
permanently retired; and the material formally treated under that name is
now considered to be
A. huijsmanii.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita huijsmanii A. lavendula,
A. pastorinoi, and
A. sp-F14.
22-29 April 2020
Eliminated taxon page:
Amanita sp-C17 is merged with
Amanita ameripanthera.
Updated techtabs Amanita ameripanthera
and
A. sp-AZ07.
18 April 2020
New taxon page: A new page based on mis-identified specimens from
Texas that had a common nrITS sequence. The new species has a
temporary code—
Amanita sp-T50. The species would have been
placed in Bas' subsection
Limbatula. It would be place in the
revived section
Roanokenses (Cui et al. 2018).
Updated techtab:
Amanita sp-T50.
15 April 2020
Updated brief tab:
Amanita multisquamosa.
4-10 April 2020
Restored page:
Amanita sp-N46.
Corrected spelling of epithet: From the first writing of the name,
RET has omitted a letter from the name that should be written "
Amanita
cruentilemurum." Note the addition of the "n" at the end of the
second syllable.
Updated brief tab:
Amanita aureofloccosa
A. cruentilemurum, and
A. sp-N46.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita amerivirosa,
A. aureofloccosa
and
A. cruentileumurm and
A. umbilicata.
1-3 April 2020
New name:
Amanita sp-C22 becomes
A. lear. Note
the epithet is a proper name in the appositive and is not declined.
Updated brief tab:
Amanita umbilicata.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita lear,
A. sp-M36,
and
A. umbilicata.
25 March 2020
Updated techtab:
Limacella illinita sensu H. V. Smith.
24 March 2020
Updated techtabs:
Amanita bablerensis,
A. bensonensis,
A. calisorora,
A. calyptratoides,
A. canescens,
A. castellae,
A. constrictisorora,
A. fulva,
A. inopinata,
A. insinuans,
A. luteolovelata,
A. singeri,
A. smithiana,
A._sponsus,
A. sp-58,
A. sp-C05,
A. sp-C25,
A. sp-NOR01,
A. sp-S12, and
Limacella sp-L-T01.
20-23 March 2020
New taxa:
Amanita sp-AUS19,
A. sp-MO10, and
A. sp-NFL12 are new in section
Vaginatae.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita albemarlensis,
A.
fulva—North American,
A. sagittaria,
A. sp-AUS19,
A. sp-MO10,
A. sp-NFL12, and
A. sturgeonii.
9-17 March 2020
New taxa:
Amanita bablerensis and
A. bensonensis are
new in section
Vaginatae.
Updated brief tabs:
Amanita bablerensis,
A. bensonensis,
and
A. lewisii.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita bablerensis,
A. bensonensis,
A. lewisii,
A. simulans,
A. sp-58,
A. sp-N49,
A. sp-N58,
A. sp-S12, and
A. sp-WI03.
25-28 February 2020
Updated brief tab:
Amanita contstrictisorora.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita constrictrisorora,
A. luteolovelata, and
A. sponsus.
17-22 February 2020
Changes of section: This has been slow in coming; however, recent
work on other projects requires us to make changes. The first set to move
is
Amanita canescens and
A. silvicola. These species move
from section
Lepidella to section
Validae. Support for this
move has been growing in the literature.
Merging of taxa:
Amanita sp-C24 is combined with
A.
constrictisorora and the cited temporary code is permanently
retired.
New taxon pages:
Amanita sp-ITAL04,
A. sp-ITAL05, and
A. sp-ITAL06.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita browntownensis,
A. canescens,
A. castellae,
A. cetovenoris,
A. constrictisorora,
A. media,
A. neocaesariensis,
A. obconicobasis,
A. olivaceogrisea,
A. praeclara,
A. radiata,
A. sagittaria,
A. sangabrielensis,
A. semiobruta,
A. sp-AUS17,
A. sp-C28,
A. sp-FRAN01,
A. sp-ITAL01,
A. sp-ITAL04,
A. sp-ITAL05,
A. sp-ITAL06,
A. sp-N66,
A. sp-NFL10,
A. sp-NOR01,
A. sp-NW11,
A. sp-WI01,
A. sponsus,
A. subnigra, and
A. texidella.
7-14 February 2020
New taxon pages:
Amanita sp-CO01,
A. sp-CROAT01,
A. sp-CROAT02,
A. sp-DEUT01,
A. sp-FRAN01, and
A. sp-S15 are
added based on dried material and genetic sequences.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita crassiputamen,
A. lactea,
A. lividopallescens,
A. olivaceogrisea,
A. ostendemihi,
A. semiobruta,
A. sp-AUS12,
A. sp-CO01,
A. sp-CROAT01,
A. sp-CROAT02,
A. sp-DEUT01,
A. sp-FRAN01,
A. sp-ITAL01, and sp-S15.
3-4 February 2020
General information: Thirteen new GenBank accession numbers posted
to techtabs.
New name: Amanita americitrina replaces A.
sp-lavendula03.
Updated techtabs: Amanita americitrina, A. lavendula,
A. cornelihybrida, and A. sp-F10.
1-2 February 2020
New taxon: Amanita sp-MO09 is a new temporary code.
Updated techtab: Amanita sp-MO09.
30-31 January 2020
New taxon: Amanita texidella and A. neocaesariensis
are apparently new species of
section Amidella with spores having bacilliform spores with Q values
up to 4.0. They are two of three species
formerly included within A. sagittaria on this site.
Updated brief tabs: Amanita neocaesariensis and
A. texidella.
Updated techtabs: Amanita neocaesariensis,
A. sagittaria, A. subvelatipes and A. texidella.
22-23 January 2020
New taxon pages: Amanita sp-NW11
and A. sp-NW12 will
be segregated from A. sp-NW04.
Updated brief tabs: Amanita sp-NW04,
A. sp-NW11, and A. sp-NW12.
Updates techtabs: Amanita batonrougensis, A. sp-NW04,
A. sp-NW11, and A. sp-NW12.
21 January 2020
30 GenBank accession numbers arrived today.
Updated techtabs: Amanita albiceps,
A. austrowellsii, A. carolinensis,
A. jakeslandingensis,
A. justicei, A. kryorhodon, A. lewisii,
A. parcivolvata,
A. pseudoinsinuans, A. rooseveltensis, A. simulans,
A. sp-C05, A. sp-C29, A. sp-T49, and
A. subcaligata.
20 January 2020
New taxon page: A new species of the Vaginatae with a white,
thick-fleshed cap—A. sp-C29.
Updated brief tab: Amanita sp-C29.
Udated techtabs: Amanita sp-C05 and A. sp-C29.
12-19 January 2020
New taxa: Amanita sp-AZ25 has been in Ms. for years. It is
a species collected in Arizona. It's range probably extends to both
southern California and the neovolcanic zone of Mexico. Amanita
sp-M25 was collected 21 years ago in the state of Tlaxcala,
México. Both species are assigned to section
Vaginatae
Updated techtabs: Amanita audubonensis,
A. batonrougensis, A. blueridgensis,
A. calisorora, A. carolinensis, A. castellae,
A. cattaraugana,
A. chiricahuana, A. constricta, A. constrictisorora,
A. crassiputamen, A. fulva (European), A. fulva
(North American), A. ifeifensis, A. insinuans,
A. jakeslandingensis,
A. lewisii, A. lindgreniana, A. maryaliceae,
A. ostendemihi,
A. rooseveltensis, A. sp-AZ25, A. sp-F18,
A. sp-M25, and A. torreyanae.
8 January 2020
Updated techtabs: Amanita semiobruta.
End of year stats (1 Jan. - 31 Dec. 2019)
As in previous years, these stats do not include visits by spiders, worms,
robots, and their ilk. We believe that the following statistics
represent human traffic on the site.
Total visits = 197,618...7% increase... [2018: 184,656...9% over 2017]
Total page-visits = 2,093,398...11% increase...
[2018: 1,882,460...68% over 2017]
Total hits = 3,399,655...6% increase...
[2018: 3,213,164...48% over 2017]
Total bandwidth = 147.96 GBytes...1.2% increase... over 2018
[2018: 146.20 GBytes...46% increase... over 2017]
Total apparent countries of origin of visitors = no stats... [2015: 158]
