Database Details : Brentidae of the World

Full name: Brentidae of the World
Short name: Brentids
Version: 5, Feb 2014
Release date: 2015-02-19
Authors/editors: Sforzi A., Bartolozzi L. (eds); Cianferoni F. & Zinetti F. (data managers)
Taxonomic coverage: Animalia - Arthropoda - Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionoidea - Brentidae
English name of the group: Straight-snouted weevils
Number of living species 1,755
Number of living infraspecific taxa 11
Number of extinct species: 0
Number of extinct infraspecific taxa: 0
Number of synonyms: 418
Number of common names: 0
Total number of names: 2,184
Abstract: A database of all the species described in the family Brentidae sensu stricto (Insecta: Coleoptera). Brentids database replaced WTaxa Brentidae family in the CoL.
Organization: Natural History Museum of the University of Florence, Italy
Website: http://rameau.snv.jussieu.fr/brentidae/
Bibliographic citation: Sforzi A., Bartolozzi L. (eds); Cianferoni F. & Zinetti F. (data managers) (2017). Brentids: Brentidae of the World (version 5, Feb 2014). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2017 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds.). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2017. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X.