Number of names. Total number of taxonomic names listed in Sherborn’s Index Animalium and in AnimalBase (2011) plotted in 5-year intervals. It must be taken into account that Sherborn’s numbers included a proportion of 30% of names that were not new, while in AnimalBase this proportion was much lower (less than 5 %).

 
 
  Part of: Welter-Schultes F, Görlich A, Lutze A (2016) Sherborn’s Index Animalium: New names, systematic errors and availability of names in the light of modern nomenclature. In: Michel E (Ed.) Anchoring Biodiversity Information: From Sherborn to the 21st century and beyond. ZooKeys 550: 173–187. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.550.10041