The goals of the Swedish Taxonomy Initiative

The scientific part of the Swedish Taxonomy Initiative has been completed when:

1. All multicellular Swedish species are known and scientifically described.
2. Scientific names of all taxa are available in a digital, dynamic database.
3. Identification keys down to species level are available for all organism groups.

The phrase ”all multicellular species” is meant to signify that all organism groups should have been inventoried and investigated to such an extent during the past few decades that the vast majority of species occurring in Sweden are known and scientifically described. This, in turn, means that all organism groups (with the possible exception of a few particularly difficult genera or species groups) should be taxonomically well known. The phrase “well known” implies that more thorough future inventories, taxonomical revisions and immigration would only be expected to result in a low number of species new to Sweden. References to relevant literature should be available at the website of the Swedish Species Information Centre, and the publications should be accessible at public Swedish scientific libraries.

Identification keys covering at least 95 % of the known species within each organism group should be available in English, Swedish, Danish or Norwegian. All known species should be included in the taxonomical database (“Dyntaxa”) of the Swedish Species Information Centre, freely accessible on the Internet. Identification keys should be available in printed and/or digital versions, meaning that the actual keys, or references to the publications in which they are included, could be found at the website of the Swedish Species Information Centre.

The treatment of an individual group of organisms will be regarded as completed when the criteria mentioned above are fulfilled regarding that particular group.