Full name:

The World Spider Catalog

Short name:

SpidCat

Version:

8.5, Jan 2008

Release date:

January 7th, 2008

Authors/editors:

NI Platnick & RJ Raven

Taxonomic coverage:

Animalia - Arthropoda - Arachnida - Araneae

Number of species names:

39,319 accepted names; 0 synonyms

Number of infraspecies names:

707 accepted names; 0 synonyms

Number of common names:

0

Total number of names:

40,026

Abstract:

A successor to 14 published volumes by Bonnet, Roewer, Brignoli, and Platnick, the World Spider Catalog aims to provide listings of all currently valid species, genera, and families of spiders, all their synonyms, and all significant taxonomic references to each species, from Linnaeus to date. The version available on the web is updated semiannually; the database version is updated as funding opportunities allow.

Organization:

American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA; Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Australia

Web site:

http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/