Database details

Full name:

The Integrated Taxonomic Information System

Short name:

ITIS

Version:

Nov 2007

Release date:

November 16th, 2007

Authors/editors:

T Orrell (custodian)

Taxonomic coverage:

Wide range of taxa in all kingdoms

Number of species names:

159,183 accepted names; 30,620 synonyms

Number of infraspecies names:

30,804 accepted names; 12,504 synonyms

Number of common names:

155,950

Total number of names:

389,061

Abstract:

ITIS supplies both global and New World groups to the Catalogue of Life – with emphasis on GSDs. ITIS develops taxonomic coverage of all biota of interest to North America and contains over 570,000 scientific and common names and has either a global or New World treatment of each group. New global sectors include the Smaller Arachnid Orders by MS Harvey (2007), World Oribatida Catalog by L Subías (2007), and platygastrid wasps by NF Johnson, that have been added to the 2008 Annual Checklist. The order Collembola and classes Aves and Mammalia have been updated.

Global sectors recently provided by ITIS:

Protozoa – Apicomplexa – Conoidasida – Eucoccidiorida – Cryptosporidiidae – Cryptosporidium

Animalia – Entoprocta, Cycliophora, Onychophora, Tardigrada

Animalia – Arthropoda – Branchiopoda – Anostraca

Animalia – Arthropoda – Malacostraca – Amphipoda – Crangonyctidae – Stygobromus

Animalia – Arthropoda – Malacostraca – Mysida

Animalia – Arthropoda – Arachnida – Amblypygi, Opilioacarida, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpiones, Ricinulei, Schizomida, Solifugae & Uropygi NEW!

Animalia – Arthropoda – Arachnida – Sarcoptiformes – suborder Oribatida NEW!

Animalia – Arthropoda – Insecta – Grylloblattodea

Animalia – Arthropoda – Insecta – Hymenoptera – Apoidea – Colletidae – subfamilies Colletinae, Euryglossinae & Apidae – Bombus

Animalia – Arthropoda – Insecta – Hymenoptera – Cynipoidea – Ibaliidae

Animalia – Arthropoda – Insecta – Hymenoptera – Evanioidea – Aulacidae & Evaniidae

Animalia – Arthropoda – Insecta – Hymenoptera – Platygastroidea – Platygastridae NEW!

Animalia – Arthropoda – Insecta – Coleoptera – Nosodendridae & Jacobsoniidae

Animalia – Arthropoda – Insecta – Coleoptera – Byrrhoidea – Limnichidae

Animalia – Arthropoda – Insecta – Coleoptera – Staphylinoidea – Silphidae – subfamily Nicrophorinae

Animalia – Arthropoda – Insecta – Mantophasmatodea

Animalia – Arthropoda – Insecta – Phthiraptera – suborder Anoplura

Animalia – Arthropoda – Insecta – Zoraptera & Trichoptera

Animalia – Chordata – Amphibia, Aves & Mammalia

Organization:

The Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Web site:

http://www.itis.gov/


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