TheWorld Spider Catalog(WSC) is an online searchable database concerned withspidertaxonomy.It aims to list all accepted families, genera and species, as well as provide access to the related taxonomic literature.
Type of site | Database |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Owner | Natural History Museum of Bern(Naturhistorisches Museum Bern) |
| URL | www |
| Launched | June 2000 (text pages) January 2015 (database) |
| Current status | 24.5 |
The WSC began as a series of web pages in 2000, created byNorman I. Platnickof theAmerican Museum of Natural History.After his retirement in 2014, theNatural History Museum of Berntook over, converting the catalog to arelational database.[1]As of November 22, 2024,52'487species are listed, after an average discovery rate of three new species per day.[2]
The orderAraneaehas the seventh-most species of all orders. The WSC's existence makes spiders the largest taxon with an online listing that is updated regularly. It has been described as an "exhaustive resource" that has "promoted rigorous scholarship and amplified productivity" in the taxonomy of spiders.[3]
References
edit- ^"Introduction",World Spider Catalog,Natural History Museum Bern,retrieved2019-12-30
- ^"Welcome page",World Spider Catalog,Natural History Museum Bern,retrieved2022-06-12
- ^Miller, J.A.; Agosti, D.; Penev, L.; Sautter, G.; Georgiev, T.; Catapano, T.; Patterson, D.; King, D.; Pereira, S.; Vos, R.A. & Sierra, S. (2015), "Integrating and visualizing primary data from prospective and legacy taxonomic literature",Biodiversity Data Journal,3(3): e5063,doi:10.3897/BDJ.3.e5063,PMC4442254,PMID26023286
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