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
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