Database details
| Full name: | ChiloBase: A World Catalogue of Centipedes (Chilopoda) for the web |
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| Short name: | ChiloBase |
| Version: | 1.01, May 2006 |
| Release date: | 2006-10-10 |
| Authors/editors: | Minelli A. (ed) |
| Taxonomic coverage: | Animalia - Arthropoda - Chilopoda |
| English name of the group: | Centipedes |
| Number of species: | 3,146 |
| Number of infraspecific taxa: | 322 |
| Number of synonyms: | 1,596 |
| Number of common names: | 0 |
| Total number of names: | 5,064 |
| 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 |
| Website: |
http://chilobase.bio.unipd.it |