Full name:

A World Catalogue of Centipedes (Chilopoda) for the Web

Short name:

ChiloBase

Version:

1.01, May 2006

Release date:

October 10th, 2006

Authors/editors:

A Minelli (ed)

Taxonomic coverage:

Animalia - Arthropoda - Chilopoda

Number of species names:

3,139 accepted names; 1,129 synonyms

Number of infraspecies names:

327 accepted names; 467 synonyms

Number of common names:

0

Total number of names:

5,062

Abstract:

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.

Organization:

Department of Biology, University of Padova, Italy

Web site:

http://chilobase.bio.unipd.it