Database details
| Full name: | Blattodea Species File Online |
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| Short name: | BSF |
| Version: | 1.2/3.1, 30 July 2007 |
| Release date: | 2008-10-16 |
| Authors/editors: | G.W. Beccaloni |
| Taxonomic coverage: | Animalia - Arthropoda - Insecta - Blattodea |
| English name of the group: | Cockroaches |
| Number of species: | 4,564 |
| Number of infraspecific taxa: | 127 |
| Number of synonyms: | 2,508 |
| Number of common names: | 105 |
| Total number of names: | 7,304 |
| Abstract: | The Blattodea Species File is a taxonomic database of the scientific names of the world's cockroaches (order Blattodea or Blattaria), excluding fossil species and the termites. The BSF has full synonymic information for about 4,500 valid cockroach species and it currently contains a total of approximately 7,000 scientific names (all ranks, valid and not valid). In the future we aim to include (amongst other things) images of specimens in museums (especially types), plus pictures of living cockroaches in the wild and in captivity. The BSF website and database use Species File Software by David Eades. |
| Organization: | Natural History Museum, London, UK |
| Website: |
http://blattodea.speciesfile.org |