This species inventory file is implemented in File Maker Pro, version 21, for both MacIntosh and PC Windows computers. The data are in a single file with one record per species. The file is designed as a species inventory, but can also be used to include extensive geographic information, down to the level of the major political subunits within countries as well as the names for which primary type material are present. So, a species record may represent the summation of the data from a number of specimens. Curation requires that collections be labeled as to their contents.
Inventory is the list of the contents of collections.
These activities should be linked, so that as labels are made an inventory can be built. ADP offers the ability to do this linkage. Use 4 letter codes. Name of the present valid species. Name of the genus with which the species group name was originally published in combination with.