Database Details : Catalogue of Craneflies of the World

Full name: Catalogue of Craneflies of the World
Short name: CCW
Version: Jul 2013
Release date: 2013-07-17
Authors/editors: Oosterbroek P.
Taxonomic coverage: Animalia - Arthropoda - Insecta - Diptera - Tipuloidea
English name of the group: Craneflies
Number of living species 14,827
Number of living infraspecific taxa 535
Number of extinct species: 0
Number of extinct infraspecific taxa: 0
Number of synonyms: 1,488
Number of common names: 0
Total number of names: 16,850
Abstract: The Catalogue of the Craneflies of the World (CCW) covers all genera, subgenera, species, subspecies, and synonyms of the World Tipuloidea (Insecta – Diptera – Nematocera – families Pediciidae, Limoniidae, Cylindrotomidae, Tipulidae), in total 17,307 taxa. It also includes up to date information on the distribution of the species and subspecies, specified by countries and, for the larger countries, states, provinces, islands.
Organization: Entomology Section, Zoological Museum, University of Amsterdam / ETI BioInformatics, The Netherlands
Website: http://nlbif.eti.uva.nl/ccw/
Bibliographic citation: Oosterbroek P. (2017). CCW: Catalogue of Craneflies of the World (version Jul 2013). 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.