Database of Genera

[christian thompson]

Ricardo:

There is no simple answer to your question, but ...

The first step is to consult the Zoological Record (www.biosis.org.uk),
check the Index to Organism Names under Resources. If the name you are
interested is in USE in the last 20 or so years, then ITON will reveal that
by pointing to a volume of the Zoological in which that name was indexed.

Other than that, you choices are just to go back to Neave and check all
printed volumes (main sections and appendices) or hope you luck out with
some of the incomplete databases now being developed on the web.

These WWW based indexes are as follows:  A couple that promise to be
comprehensive but are still building and have a long way to go. First there
is Species2000 (www.species2000.org). Then there is  ITIS, the Integrated
Taxonomic Information System (www.itis.usda.gov). Beware there is a lot of
overlap in these database, that is, much of what is in Species2000 came from
ITIS.  And then there are databases to specific groups (and from which ITIS,
Species2000 get their data from), such as Fishbase (www.fishbase.org) and
the BioSystematic Database of World Diptera (www.diptera.org).

Our BioSystematic Database of World Diptera has some 200,000 fly names
currently in its Nomenclator, of which 21,276 are genus-group names. We are
complete for genus-group names, but we quess we are still missing some 50K
species-group names!

So, I suspect it will be a long time before zoologists have easy one-step
checking for scientific names.

Cheers

F. Christian Thompson
Systematic Entomology Lab., ARS, USDA
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, D. C. 20560-0169
(202) 382-1800 voice
(202) 786-9422 FAX
cthompso at sel.barc.usda.gov
visit our Diptera site at www.diptera.org

>>> "Vr. Richard Bejsak-Colloredo-Mansfeld" <ricardo at ANS.COM.AU> 05/12 6:50
AM >>>
Dear colleague,

is there any database of genera of animalia?
If you like to create new genus how to find that the genus is not in use?
I know for example that Tribolium is beetles and in the same time a grass.
This is OK.
But how to find for example that genus Emcephalus will be valid for
beetles
and not in already used by diptera, Lepidoptera, or some lizards?

Regards
Ricardo
Keep care and be of good cheer.

Regards

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