Nomina Carabidarum
Subtitle: a Directory of the Scientific Names of Ground Beetles (Coleoptera "Geadephaga": Trachypachidae and Carabidae, incl. Paussinae, Cicindelinae, Rhysodinae)
By: by Wolfgang Lorenz.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: W. Lorenz    www.carabidfauna.net
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Tutzing, Germany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1190
Subjects: Ground beetles -- Nomenclature.; Beetles -- Nomenclature.
Genres: Nomenclature.
First sentence: Scientific names of organisms are the key to information and biodiversity communication, - in other words, all data about organisms are tagged with scientific names. The book volume 'Nomina Carabidarum' is the first comprehensive alphabetical index to the 64.000 scientific names and synonyms of living and fossil ground beetles (Carabidae s.l., including Trachypachidae, Paussinae, Cicindelinae and Rhysodinae) of the world. In context with the online tools CarabCat and CarabMap (see below), Nomina Carabidarum is a "spellchecker" for the correct standard names of ground beetles.
Description: All published family-, genus- and species-group names of the ground beetles of the world are listed in alphabetical order. Included are synonyms and the most important unavailable names, incorrect original or subsequent spellings and misidentified names. Additional information for names include: authors and dates of publication, availability, validity and taxonomic (standard) placement of names, original spelling and type genera of family-group names, gender and type species of genus-group names, and types of epithets. Species-group names are listed with their original and current generic combinations, - the latter are basically needed as "standard keywords" for the tools CarabCat and CarabMap.
Notes: www.carabidfauna.net

Includes bibliographical references .
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