Reptile Database

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The Reptile Database is a scientific database that collects taxonomic information on all living reptile species (i.e. no fossil species such as dinosaurs). The database focuses on species (as opposed to higher ranks such as families) and has entries for all currently recognized ~14,000 species and their subspecies,[1] although there is usually a lag time of up to a few months before newly described species become available online. The database collects scientific and common names, synonyms, literature references, distribution information, type information, etymology, and other taxonomically relevant information.

History

The database was founded in 1995 as EMBL Reptile Database

J Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) where Uetz was an associate professor until 2010. Since 2010, the database has been maintained on servers in the Czech Republic under the supervision of Peter Uetz and Jirí Hošek, a Czech programmer.[4] The database celebrated its 25th anniversary together with AmphibiaWeb which had its 20th anniversary in 2021.[5]

Content

Number of reptile genera with a given number of species. Most genera have only one or a few species but a few may have hundreds. Based on data from the Reptile Database (as of May 2015).

As of August 2024, the Reptile Database lists about 12,200 species (including another ~2,200 subspecies) in about 1250 genera (see figure), and has more than 60,000 literature references and about 22,000 photos. The database has constantly grown since its inception with an average of 100 to 200 new species described per year over the preceding decade.[6] Recently, the database also added a more or less complete list of primary type specimens.[7]

Relationship to other databases

The Reptile Database has been a member of the

IUCN Redlist database. The NCBI
taxonomy database links out to the Reptile Database.

See also

References

  1. PMID 29689772
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  2. ^ Uetz, P.; Etzold, T. (1996). "The EMBL/EBI Reptile Database". Herpetological Review. 27 (4): 174–175.
  3. ^ Uetz, P.; J. Goll; J. Hallermann (2007). "Die TIGR-Reptiliendatenbank". Elaphe. 15 (3): 22–25.
  4. ^ Abraham, S.A. (Jan 9, 2015). "VCU professor manages comprehensive database to map reptilian lineage". Across the Spectrum. Virginia Commonwealth University.
  5. ^ Uetz, Peter; et al. (16 June 2021). "A Quarter Century of Reptile and Amphibian Databases". Herpetological Review. 52: 246–255 – via ResearchGate.
  6. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2334.1.3
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  7. S2CID 207962117
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  8. ^ Catalogue of Life Source databases Archived 2020-09-17 at the Wayback Machine, accessed Aug 2015
  9. ^ "iNaturalist". Inaturalist.org. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
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