Database Details : Cockroach Species File

Full name: Cockroach Species File UPDATED!
Short name: CockroachSF
Version: 5.0, Dec 2016
Release date: 2016-11-29
Authors/editors: Beccaloni G.W.
Taxonomic coverage: Animalia - Arthropoda - Insecta - Blattodea
English name of the group: Cockroaches
Number of living species 4,649
Number of living infraspecific taxa 115
Number of extinct species: 0
Number of extinct infraspecific taxa: 0
Number of synonyms: 3,260
Number of common names: 142
Total number of names: 8,166
Abstract: The Cockroach Species File is a new name for BlattodeaSF. It is an up-to-date taxonomic catalogue of the world's cockroaches, excluding fossil species. Cockroaches belong to the order Blattodea (sometimes known as Blattaria) as too do the termites. In the past termites were thought to be a separate order, Isoptera, but recent work confirms that they are in fact blattodeans. The CockroachSF includes c. 6,700 scientific names (all ranks, valid and not valid) and c. 4,600 valid species are recognised. Images of museum specimens (especially types), plus pictures of living cockroaches are slowly being added.
Organization: Natural History Museum, London, UK
Website: http://Cockroach.speciesfile.org
Bibliographic citation: Beccaloni G.W. (2017). CockroachSF: Cockroach Species File (version 5.0, Dec 2016). 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.

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