Press release, 3 August 2011
“CAB Thesaurus gets biggest update in 30 years
The CAB Thesaurus, the world’s most comprehensive controlled vocabulary covering applied life sciences and related subject areas, has had its biggest update in 30 years. In just one year the thesaurus has grown by 40% and now includes nearly 137,000 terms.
Additions to the new edition include:
• 10,000 nematode species mentioned in CABI online databases
• World lists of birds, mammals, sucking lice (Anoplura) and trichodectid chewing lice (Mallophaga), with synonyms
• Complete revisions to the existing taxonomic hierarchies in the thesaurus of dinoflagellates and algae
• 7275 new insect species from the Medani database, which contains species of veterinary and medical importance”
Detailed information from CABI website
http://www.cabi.org/?site=170&page=4466