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Legacy News (from old "Amanita Studies" site, fragmentary)
May 17-18 2013
Updated techtabs:
Amanita brunnescens f.
straminea,
A. crenulata,
A. morrisii,
A. sp-lavendula01,
A. sp-lavendula02, and
A. sp-lavendula03.
May 14-15 2013
Updated techtabs:
Amanita nauseosa and
A. sp-lavendula01.
May 11 2013
Updated techtab:
Amanita solaniolens.
May 1 2013
New page:
Amanita muscaria var.
alba.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita augusta,
A. muscaria, and
Amanita muscaria var.
alba.
April 30 2013
New page:
Amanita augusta.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita augusta,
A. muscaria var.
guessowii, and
A. muscaria var.
persicina.
April 29 2013
Altered pages related to Amanitaceae genetics: Instead of providing a flatfile template for nrITS sequences, we now supply a "fasta" format template for input to Sequin.
April 28 2013
User statistics: Late last night (U.S. Eastern Daylight-Savings Time). we exceeded the 16,000 user visits mark for 2013 and have now downloaded 10.83 Gbytes of data to our users this year. Please, consider a donation (
here) to help us secure the future of this site.
April 23 2013
Updated brief tabs:
Amanita sp-lavendula01,
A. sp-lavendula02, and
A. sp-lavendula03.
April 16 2013
Updated techtab:
Amanita sp-lavendula01.
April 13-15 2013
New taxon page:
Limacella illinita var.
rubescens sensu Neville and Poumarat.
Updated brief tabs:
Amanita sp-lavendula02 and
A. sp-lavendula03.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita sp-lavendula01,
A. sp-lavendula02,
A. sp-lavendula03, and
Limacella illinita var.
rubescens sensu Neville and Poumarat.
April 9 2013
User statistics: Today we have exceeded the 13,000 user visits mark for 2013 and have now downloaded 9.09 Gbytes of data to our users this year.
April 2-5 2013
Updated techtabs:
Amanita brunnescens,
A. cruzii,
A. roseitincta,
A. sp-Kerala01,
A. strobiliformis, and
A. whetstoneae.
March 28-29 2013
Updated techtabs:
Amanita aestivalis,
A. brunnescens,
A. virosa, and
A. whetstoneae.
March 27 2013
Updated techtab:
Amanita brunnescens.
March 26 2013
Updated brief tab:
Amanita whetstoneae.
Updated techtab:
Amanita whetstoneae.
March 23 2013
Updated brief tab:
Amanita citrina f.
lavendula.
March 18 2013
User statistics: Today we have exceeded the 10,000 user visits mark for 2013 and have now downloaded 7.11 Gbytes of data to our users this year.
We are on track to see our users double their total download volume over our previous bandwidth high (last year).
Please, consider a donation (
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Updated brief tab:
Amanita zambiana.
Updated techtab:
Amanita zambiana.
March 15 2013
Updated brief tabs:
Amanita sp-CR14,
A. sp-CR18, and
A. sp-T01.
March 14 2013
Updated techtab:
Amanita subcaligata.
March 13 2013
Updated techtabs:
Amanita brunnescens,
A. sp-CR18, and
A. sp-T01.
March 11 2013
New taxon page:
Amanita sp-CR14—a possible new species provisionally placed in sect.
Phalloideae from Costa Rica.
Updated brief tab:
Amanita sp-CR18.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita solaniolens,
A. sp-CR14, and
A. sp-CR18.
March 7 2013
New taxon page:
Amanita sp-CR18—a citrinoid species known from Costa Rica.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita brunnescens f.
straminea and
A. sp-CR18.
March 5-6 2013
Updated techtabs:
Amanita sp-lavendula01,
A. sp-lavendula02,
A. sp-lavendula03, and
A. zambiana.
March 4 2013
Updated techtabs:
Amanita sp-lavendula02, and
A. zambiana.
March 3 2013
Updated brief tab:
Amanita brunnescens f.
straminea.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita brunnescens f.
straminea and
A. zambiana.
March 2 2013
Updated brief tab:
Amanita citrina f.
lavendula.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita sp-lavendula03 and
A. zambiana.
March 1 2013
New pages:
Amanita sp-lavendula01,
A. sp-lavendula02, and
A. sp-lavendula03.
Updated brief tabs:
Amanita sp-lavendula01,
A. sp-lavendula02, and
A. sp-lavendula03.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita citrina f.
lavendula,
A. sp-lavendula01,
A. sp-lavendula02, and
A. sp-lavendula03.
February 27 2013
Updated techtab:
Amanita citrina f.
lavendula.
February 24 2013
Updated brief tab:
Amanita citrina f.
lavendula.
Updated techtab:
Amanita citrina f.
lavendula.
February 23 2013
User statistics: Today we have exceeded the 7000 user visits mark for 2013 and have now downloaded 5.17 Gbytes of data to our users this year. Please, consider a donation (
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Updated brief tab:
Amanita citrina f.
lavendula.
Updated techtab:
Amanita citrina f.
lavendula [interesting new molecular information on the curious
group of taxa known under this name].
February 16 2013
Updated brief tab:
Amanita tlaxcandela.
February 16 2013
Changed name: The page formerly called
Amanita sp-N29 has been renamed
Amanita aureosolea.
Updated brief tab:
Amanita aureosolea.
February 13 2013
Updated techtab:
Amanita cacaina.
February 10 2013
Updated techtab:
Amanita cochiseana.
February 8 2013
Updated techtab:
Amanita sp-QUE01.
February 7 2013
Updated techtabs:
Amanita calyptratoides and
A. tlaxcandela.
February 6 2013
Revision of sectional placement: We have revised the placement of most of the sequestrate amanitas according to the phylogenetic finds of Justo et al. (
2010). This adds two stirpes to section
Amanita. Among the sequestrate species, only one species of the former genus
Torrendia now remains in section
Caesareae—
Amanita torrendii (≡
Torrendia pulchella).
Updated brief tabs:
Amanita calyptratoides and
Limacella myochroa.
Updated techtab:
Amanita calyptratoides.
February 4 2013
New taxon page:
Amanita tlaxcandela nom. prov.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita calyptratoides,
A. flammeola, and
A. tlaxcandela.
February 1 2013
User statistics: WAO user visits in January 2013 were up 27% from January 2012. We are very grateful for our users' expanding interest in this site. Please, consider a donation (
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January 31 2013
Updated brief tabs:
Amanita loosii and
A. pudica.
January 29 2013
Site usage: Today we received our 4,000
th visit of 2013. So far this year, we have downloaded 2.83 Gbytes to our readers.
January 11 2013
Updated brief tab:
Amanita tanzanica.
January 10 2013
Updated brief tab:
Amanita crebresulcata.
Updated techtabs:
Amanita annulatovaginata var.
citrina and
A. flammeola.
January 9 2013
Addition of bibliography: An additional bibliography (at present limited to sources utilized in the Roosevelt group's collection, study, and annotation of DNA sequences in general and of the nrITS region's sublocus variable terminal strings and more conserved motifs.
Site usage: Today we received our 1,000
th visit of 2013.
Updated techtab:
Amanita flammeola.
January 2 2013
Updated brief tab:
Amanita pruittii.
Updated techtab:
Amanita pruittii.
January 1 2013
Welcome to 2013 at < www.amanitaceae.org >. Previous years' news is found on subordinate (child) pages of this page.
We extend our best wishes for a healthy and productive 2013 to all our readers.
End of year stats (1 Jan. - 31 Dec. 2012)
Total visits = 44,840...70% increase... [2011: 26,338]
Total page-visits = 423,742...12% increase... [2011: 378,011]
Total hits = 749,116...21% increase... [2011: 617,227]
Total bandwidth = 23.32 GBytes...42% increase... [2011: 16.42 GBytes]
Total countries of origin of visitors = 109... [2011: 104]
