cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.15468/7ev2vw
title: Chrysididae Species File

description: The Chrysididae Species File is a taxonomic database of the Chrysidid subfamilies Amiseginae and Loboscelidiinae. These understudied wasps are believed to be obligate egg-parasitoids of stick insects (see Phasmida Species File). The goal of this database is to provide a central point for information about these wasps, including their host relationships which are at present poorly understood. It is hoped that an up-to-date and centralised database will facilitate studies on these enigmatic insects, both by hymenopterists and phasmatologists.
DOI: 10.15468/7zstr8
title: Geranium Taxonomic Information System

description: This is a database of Geranium names and synonymic checklist of the genus which is a part of a project to prepare a worldwide monograph of cranesbills. It is partly financed by the Spanish Government through the research projects REN2003-00982/GLO, CGL2004-00172/BOS and CGL2007-60184/BOS.
DOI: 10.15468/bju3uu
title: Providing information on the World's thrips

description: ThripsWiki site was designed and produced in Canberra by Inkeri Lehtinen with Laurence Mound. Data was drawn from a web-based checklist that since 2005 was available through CSIRO Australia, but which for technical reasons has had to be abandoned. "Thysanoptera (Thrips) of the World - a checklist" originated from card-catalogues maintained over many years at the Natural History Museum, London, and at the Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt. GBIF funded visits to check data at the major thrips collections in Frankfurt, London and Washington DC for the 2005 system. The available data has been extensively revised and enriched through bibliographic and web searches, and production of this new site was supported by DAFF Australia.
DOI: 10.15468/c9jejv
title: Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae

description: The Gracillariidae is one of the largest families of primitive moths (Lepidoptera). Gracillariid moths are generally distributed throughout the world except Antarctica, and they are more numerous in tropical areas. Many species of Gracillariidae are serious pests of agricultural and ornamental plants. The Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae currently holds information on 150 genus-group names and in total 2.427 species-group names, belonging to 111 genera.
DOI: 10.15468/pm4z3k
title: StaphBase_2022-12-12_15:41:00_-0600

description: The project is an ongoing effort to build and maintain a catalog all family-, genus- and species-group names in the beetle group Staphyliniformia (superfamilies Staphylinoidea (including Jacobsoniidae), Hydrophiloidea & Histeroidea, but excluding Scarabaeoidea added to this group very recently), including all named fossils. All original descriptions were consulted to verify original data, and the current status, distribution, and in many cases significant subsequent literature and type depositories and type localities for species are indicated. It is an extension of the database catalogs initiated as a US-NSF PEET project (see http://archive.fieldmuseum.org/peet_staph), initially based on multiple sources as listed there, but subsequently extensively edited and actively updated.
DOI: 10.15468/ayf2bq
title: World catalogue of the tribe Sepidiini (Tenebrionidae, Coleoptera)

description: The catalogue includes all valid family-group (six subtribes), genus-group (55 genera, 33 subgenera), and species-group names (1009 species and subspecies) of Sepidiini darkling beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Pimeliinae), and their available synonyms. For each name, the author, year, and page number of the description are provided, with additional information (e.g., type species for genus-group names, author of synonymies for invalid taxa, notes) depending on the taxon rank. Verified distributional records (loci typici and data acquired from revisionary publications) for all the species are gathered. The Catalogue is published in ZooKeys 844: 1–121 (2019), https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.844.34241.
DOI: 10.15468/n3c8gr
title: Grylloblattodea Species File

description: Grylloblattodea Species File website and database contains taxonomic information on ice crawlers.
DOI: 10.15468/h896bz
title: On-line Systematic Catalog of Plant Bugs (Insecta - Heteroptera - Miridae)

description: The Planetary Biodiversity Inventory (PBI) for Plant Bugs provides a resource about the global plant bug subfamilies Orthotylinae and Phylinae (Insecta - Heteroptera - Miridae) to systematists, insect ecologists, conservation biologists, the general public, and students via the Internet. The database was made possible with the generous support from the National Science Foundation in 2003-2011.
DOI: 10.15468/hdu2wk
title: Nepticulidae and Opostegidae of the World

description: This database covers all global extant and fossil species of Nepticuloidea. It is based on the scratchpad Nepticuloidea.info, and the fixed publication Nieukerken EJ van, Doorenweerd C, Hoare RJB, Davis DR (2016). Revised classification and catalogue of global Nepticulidae and Opostegidae (Lepidoptera: Nepticuloidea). ZooKeys 628: 65-246. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.628.9799, all published on October 31st, 2016. The database covers all current valid names, and all known synonyms, various combinations and synonymic infra-subspecific names. The publication also provides biogeographic regions, the full classification, including species groups, many notes and a taxonomic history and "state of the art". The scratchpad also contains details on types, country distribution, and a growing number of multimedia and descriptions. Excluded names and dubious names, not present in CoL can also be found in both other sources.
DOI: 10.15468/qwbasy
title: Phasmida Species File

description: The Phasmida Species File (PSF) is a taxonomic database of the world's Phasmida (stick and leaf insects, known as walking sticks and walking leaves in the U.S.). There is full synonymic and taxonomic information for 3,269 valid species and 5,000 taxonomic names, 35,300 citations to 3,000 references, also 7,000 specimen records and 16,000 images of 75% of valid species, with more being added to on a regular basis. Another future aim of this database is to provide high quality images of living phasmids in the wild and in captivity. Colleagues have kindly collaborated by providing photos (with particular thanks to Oskar Conle & Frank Hennemann).
DOI: 10.15468/bmfaag
title: Lygaeoidea Species File

description: The Lygaeoidea Species File database contains taxonomic and other information about all the seed bugs of the world, both living and fossil. This online catalog is under continual development as more specimen data and other information are added.
DOI: 10.15468/eebknh
title: Cockroach Species File

description: The Cockroach Species File is an up-to-date taxonomic catalogue of the world's cockroaches, excluding fossil species. Cockroaches belong to the order Blattodea (sometimes known as Blattaria) as too do the termites. In the past termites were thought to be a separate order, Isoptera, but recent work confirms that they are in fact blattodeans. The CSF includes c. 6,700 scientific names (all ranks, valid and not valid) and c. 4,600 valid species are recognised. Images of museum specimens (especially types), plus pictures of living cockroaches are slowly being added.
DOI: 10.15468/2jxczc
title: Cercopoidea Organised On Line

description: COOL is a systematic based database on the Cercopoidea (Froghoppers or Spittlebugs). Its purpose is to gather information on the taxonomy, nomenclature, bibliography, geographic distributin and host-plants for those insects. The objective is to organise the collected knowledge on the froghoppers and to allow an easy access to these information to any interested person. This database is on the process of being developed. At the moment it is based upon the Metcalf catalogue (1960-1962) for the families Cercopidae, Clastopteridae and Aphrophoridae. Since the Epigydae were described posteriorly to this catalogue the information concerning this family were taken directly from the publication of Hamilton (2001). The Machaerotidae are up to date.
DOI: 10.15468/pg6gft
title: Hymenoptera Information System, Pompilidae of the World

description: The HymIS database provides the taxonomic backbone for a global information system on bees and wasps. For the family Pompilidae 4785 valid taxa and 8553 synonyms are available.
DOI: 10.15468/ws7u84
title: The Paleobiology Database

description: The Paleobiology Database (PaleoBioDB) is a non-governmental, non-profit public resource for paleontological data. It has been organized and operated by a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional, international group of paleobiological researchers. Its purpose is to provide global, collection-based occurrence and taxonomic data for organisms of all geological ages, as well data services to allow easy access to data for independent development of analytical tools, visualization software, and applications of all types. The Database’s broader goal is to encourage and enable data-driven collaborative efforts that address large-scale paleobiological questions.
DOI: 10.15468/b3scfm
title: World Ostracoda Database

description: The Recent or extant taxa from the World Ostracoda Database-World Register of Marine Species includes mostly marine species, and was data-mined from thousands of publications (see sources in WoRMS). Concerning the Recent non-marine Ostracoda, very few of the 2,000 species and approximately 200 genera of are included in the present data, because they have already been compiled by Martens et al. (2007). Concerning the high level classification (i.e., down to family level), we follow different authors. The Recent Podocopa classification mostly follows Horne et al. (2002), with two exceptions. First, we include Platycopida within the subclass Platycopa, while Horne et al. (2002) place it within Podocopa. Second, we place the superfamily Puncioidea (which includes a few Recent species) directly in the subclass Palaeocopa, while Horne et al (2002) include it within Subclass Podocopa, order Palaeocopida and Suborder Kirkbyocopina. The classification of Recent Myodocopa follows diverse classifications of Kornicker and collaborators (e.g. Kornicker et al., 2007). Horne, D.J., Cohen, A.C. & Martens, K. (2002). Taxonomy, morphology and biology of Quaternary and living Ostracoda. In: J. Holmes and A. Chivas (Eds), The Ostracoda. Applications in Quaternary Research. Geophysical Monograph. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, pp. 5-35. Kornicker, L.S., Iliffe, T.M. & Harrison-Nelson, E. (2007) Ostracoda (Myodocopa) from anchialine caves and ocean blue holes. Zootaxa 1565, 3-151. Martens, K., Schön, I., Meisch, C. & Horne, D.J. (2008) Global diversity of ostracods (Ostracoda, Crustacea) in freshwater. Hydrobiologia 595, 185-193.
DOI: 10.15468/ebasm2
title: Nomenclatural Database of Eumycetozoa (Myxomycota)

description: Eumycetozoa.com is an on-line taxonomic checklist and nomenclatural information system of the Eumycetozoans of the world (Myxomycetes, Dictyostelids and Protostelids). It provides information on 1,297 species, 2,528 synonyms and 1,012 invalid or doubtful names employed in this group. The database can be searched by different ranks; it can show the history of the name, all synonyms of the species, taxonomic views in different publications, or the single view of the Eumycetozoa.com editors.
DOI: 10.15468/am5g9r
title: World List of Actiniaria

description: A compilation of publications concerning taxonomy, nomenclature, and geographic distribution of extant hexacorallians - members of cnidarian order Actiniaria (sea anemones in the strict sense)
DOI: 10.15468/rujvwd
title: Psylloidea database

description: Psyl'list is an online database dedicated to Jumping Plant-Lice (Insecta, Hemiptera, Psylloidea). The aim of this ongoing project is primarily to make up the absence of world catalogues for Psylloidea, in organizing taxonomic data and providing easy access to the published taxonomic data already available, but scattered in literature. In the future, information about Psylloidea morphology, host-plants and biogeography, as well as linked molecular data, will be added.
DOI: 10.15468/5yd4bu
title: Neuropterida Species of the World

description: The Neuropterida Species of the World (NSW) catalogue documents fundamental taxonomic, nomenclatural, distributional (geographic, chronostratigraphic, lithostratigraphic), and related information for extant and extinct Neuropterida species on a global scale. The catalogue forms one of the fundamental modules of the Lacewing Digital Library (LDL) web portal (http://lacewing.tamu.edu/). The Catalogue of Life dataset contains a restricted extract of NSW data that is focused on the taxonomy and nomenclature of extant and extinct neuropterid species, together with associated bibliographic information. For more complete information on neuropterid names and taxa, including extensive information on types, search the on-line version of the NSW at http://lacewing.tamu.edu/Species-Catalogue/scspeciescatalogue.cfm.
DOI: 10.15468/kdu5gg
title: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System

description: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS, www.itis.gov) partners with specialists from around the world to assemble scientific names and their taxonomic relationships, and distributes that data openly through publicly available software. The ITIS mission is to communicate a comprehensive taxonomy of global species that enables biodiversity information to be discovered, indexed, and connected across all human endeavors. ITIS is made up of 11 active MOU partners https://www.itis.gov/mou.html committed to improving and continually updating scientific and common names of all seven Kingdoms of Life (Archaea, Bacteria, Protozoa, Chromista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia). The full ITIS content is updated regularly in ChecklistBank, and many completed taxonomic subsets are also used in the Catalogue of Life. Although ITIS cannot here summarize the sources and status of the many individual Global Species Databases ITIS contributes to the Catalogue of Life, users interested in additional detail may refer to ITIS' "What's New" page: https://www.itis.gov/whatsnew.html ITIS staff have made substantial contributions to the conception and design of the ITIS work product. This includes acquisition, analysis, and interpretation of data, as well as the creation and maintenance of software used to collect and distribute data. The authorship for ITIS - as distinct from stewards and specialists who contribute their taxonomic expertise to segments of ITIS data - is ordered alphabetically by last name because the data herein have been reviewed and approved as a team. As one the ITIS team have agreed to be accountable for the content of ITIS. Questions related to the accuracy or integrity of ITIS data should be directed to the team at itiswebmaster@si.edu. All questions regarding the content of ITIS will be appropriately investigated by the team and resolved and documented openly by the team.
DOI: 10.15468/7u2are
title: World Foraminifera Database

description: This World Database of all species of Foraminifera ever described, is part of the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), a global initiative to provide a register of all marine organisms. Foraminifera (‘hole bearers’) or forams for short, are a large phylum of amoeboid protozoans (single celled) with reticulating pseudopods, fine strands of cytoplasm that branch and merge to form a dynamic net. They usually produce a test (or shell) which can have one or more chambers, and are made of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) or mineral grains or other particles glued together. The tests are usually less than 0.5 mm in size, but the largest can be up to 20 cm across. Foraminifera are among the most abundant and scientifically important groups of marine organisms. The tests of recently dead planktic foraminifera are so abundant that they form a thick blanket over one third of the surface of the Earth (as Globigerina ooze on the ocean floor). Foraminifera are essentially marine- and estuarine-dwelling protozoans living in all environments from the greatest depths right up to highest astronomical tide level and from the equator to the poles. The importance of foraminifera comes from the use of their fossil tests in biostratigraphy, paleoenvironmental studies, and isotope geochemistry. Their ubiquity in most marine sedimentary rocks, often as large, well-preserved, diverse assemblages, has resulted in their being the most studied group of fossils worldwide. Because modern foraminifera have attracted little interest from biologists, paleontologists have been forced to undertake most studies, including genetic research, on the living fauna. This site has the following aims: to provide a catalogue of the world's foraminiferal species to promote stability in foraminiferal nomenclature to act as a tool for higher taxonomic revisions and regional monographs
DOI: 10.15468/kwbb45
title: Universal Chalcidoidea Database

description: Work on the Universal Chalcidoidea Database was started, with the help of small grants from Unilever and Tate & Lyle plc, in August 1991 with the aim of making it freely available in electronic format. The Chalcidoidea is a large group of insects, currently numbering about 23,000 species, many of which have an important impact on major ecosystems and are frequently used for the biocontrol of insect pests. The database is intended to provide comprehensive information on the taxonomy, biology and distribution of all included species.
DOI: 10.15468/vht37b
title: Dermaptera Species File

description: The Dermaptera Species File website and database contain taxonomic information about earwigs.
DOI: 10.15468/3vwm3h
title: The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

description: The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera is a provisional (or ‘interim’) compilation of genus names – including species names in many cases – and covers both living and extinct biota into a single system to support taxonomic and other queries dealing with e.g. homonyms, authorities, parent-child relationships, spelling variations and distinctions between marine and non-marine or fossil and recent taxa
DOI: 10.15468/bmm4vc
title: Zoological-Botanical Database (Vespoidea)

description: ZOBODAT is a digitally organised biogeographical database including facilities for analysis, documentation and communication. Founded in 1972 by Univ.- Prof. Dr. Ernst Rudolf Reichl, ZOBODAT was taken over by the federal county of Upper Austria in 1999. It is located at the Biology Centre of the Museum of Upper Austria. The original database includes information about the temporal and spatial distribution of animal and plant species and various supporting information topics. Most of the data traditionally refer to insects of Austria, but ZOBODAT can be used for all groups of organisms and world-wide. ZOBODAT contributes world vespid wasps to the Catalogue of Life.
DOI: 10.15468/cnfyph
title: Brentidae of the World

description: A database of all the species described in the family Brentidae sensu stricto (Insecta, Coleoptera). Brentids database replaced WTaxa Brentidae family in the CoL.
DOI: 10.15468/mb3kh4
title: Electronic Catalogue of Weevil names (Curculionoidea)

description: The Electronic Catalogue of Weevil Names is a project in progress. Ultimately it will contain all family, genus and species-group names in the Curculionoidea, a group of beetles with about 60,000 described species which contains many important insects, including the bark beetles (Scolytinae) and powder-post beetles (Platypodinae). Currently the database contains all generic and family-group names, in their current taxonomic position, and based on Alonso-Zarazaga & Lyal's (1999, 2002, 2009) and Lyal & Alonso-Zarazaga's (2005) catalogue of weevil family and genus names. Species-group names are now added up to the end of 2014. These, and their subsequent combinations, have been checked against original publication and current placement for most names firstly published before 1801. All these names have been adequately qualified under the provisions of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, 4th Edition. Many duplicate names appearing in previous versions have been eliminated. M. Sánchez-Ruiz is acknowledged as technical editor for WTaxa database and data export for the Catalogue of Life.
DOI: 10.15468/822dsh
title: Annonaceae GSD

description: AnnonBase includes all published names of Annonaceae of any rank worldwide. The idea of this development is to serve as a concise taxonomic backbone for basic as well as applied scientific studies. The AnnonBase source database also includes references to type material and their location of deposit. This releases includes information on vernacular names, distributional data and links to relevant information sources. Database development and maintenance has been done at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Natural History Museum of Vienna, and the University of Vienna and was partly funded by the European Commission.
DOI: 10.15468/694tsk
title: Checklist of the Collembola of the World

description: The Checklist of the Collembola of the World constitutes a comprehensive resource in the field of Collembola systematics. The checklist is searchable by taxon and is linked, at three taxon ranks (family, genus and species), to global distribution maps. In addition, the site contains complementary information including biology, identification, collecting techniques, bibliography and images.
DOI: 10.15468/egn9tj
title: The World List of Cycads, online edition

description: The World List of Cycads is a working list of known cycad species names with the primary goal of providing reliable information on the taxonomy of cycads for use by researchers, conservation planners, and others. It is developed in close collaboration with world's foremost cycad experts and published under the auspices of the IUCN's Cycad Specialist Group. The printed edition is published in the proceedings of the International Conference of Cycad Biology, which is held every three years.
DOI: 10.15468/2wkpy2
title: The Scorpion Files

description: The intention of The Scorpion Files is to present an updated list of all extant scorpion species and the current situation in scorpion taxonomy. The Scorpion Files' family and species lists reflect the most recent published works, and not necessarily which system the editor believes is correct. The list does not contain synonymy yet. Data have been harvested by Geoff Ower, CoL Database Manager, from the original website into CoLDP format.
DOI: 10.15468/khm2tg
title: A World Catalogue of Centipedes (Chilopoda) for the Web

description: ChiloBase is a taxonomic database of all known extant centipedes (Chilopoda) of the world including a modern taxonomic system. It provides information on all taxa within the group, including synonymy. In addition to the data available through the Catalogue of Life, the original database also includes original descriptions, type localities and type species. It was compiled by an international team of expert taxonomists with support from GBIF.
DOI: 10.15468/vbgwm7
title: Lace Bugs Database (Hemiptera: Tingidae)

description: A database of all the species described in Tingidae family (Insecta: Heteroptera) with references, distribution and pictures.
DOI: 10.15468/xdfdpn
title: World Porifera Database

description: The World Porifera database is a searchable catalogue of recent sponge species and higher taxon names. The catalogue is intended to promote stability and act as a tool for higher taxon revisions, regional monographs, and eventually as a catalogue of the world’s sponge specimen databases as these are slowly being accumulated through EurOBIS and GBIF. Data are contributed to the Catalogue of Life via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), hosted by the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ).