Naturhistorisches Museum der Burgergemeinde Bern (Natural History Museum of Bern)
URL
www.wsc.nmbe.ch
Launched
June 2000 (text pages) January 2015 (database)
Current status
24.5
The World Spider Catalog (WSC) is an online searchable database concerned with spider taxonomy. It aims to list all accepted families, genera and species, as well as provide access to the related taxonomic literature. The WSC began as a series of individual web pages in 2000, created by Norman I. Platnick of the American Museum of Natural History. After Platnick's retirement in 2014, the Natural History Museum of Bern (Switzerland) took over the catalog, converting it to a relational database.[1]
As of June 2022[update], 50,151 accepted species were listed. By October 25, 2023 this number had increased to 51,548 for an average of rate of discovery being 3 new species per day.[2]
The order Araneae (spiders) has the seventh-most species of all orders. The existence of the World Spider Catalog makes spiders the largest taxon with an online listing that is updated regularly. It has been described as an "exhaustive resource" that has "promoted rigorous scholarship and amplified productivity" in the taxonomy of spiders.[3]
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families or did not induce those effects. As of June 2022[update], the WorldSpiderCatalog accepts these genera: Acantholycosa Dahl, 1908—Asia, Europe, North...
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April 2020[update], the three species view was accepted by the WorldSpiderCatalog. They are among the largest spiders of Central and Northern Europe. They were previously...
phylogenetics and its application to spiders, the family has been progressively dismantled; the WorldSpiderCatalog lists over 100 genera formerly placed...
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daddy long-legs spider, carpenter spider, daddy long-legger, vibrating spider, gyrating spider, long daddy, and skull spider. The family, first described by...
and brown widow spider bites in South Africa". South African Medical Journal. 83. "Species list for Latrodectus". WorldSpiderCatalog. Natural History...
Zorocratidae (merged into Zoropsidae) As of January 2023[update], the WorldSpiderCatalog accepts the following genera: Arabellata Baert, Versteirt & Jocqué...
1854". WorldSpiderCatalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-19. Wood HM, Scharff N (2018). "A review of the Madagascan pelican spiders of...
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their prey's attempts to fight back. As of January 2024[update], the WorldSpiderCatalog accepted the following genera: Allomicythus Ono, 2009 — Vietnam Allozelotes...
media related to Dysdera crocata. Platnick, Norman I. (2008): The worldspidercatalog, version 8.5. American Museum of Natural History. Pictures of Dysdera...
families and counts based on the WorldSpiderCatalog version 22.5 as of 5 November 2021[update]. In the WorldSpiderCatalog, "species" counts include subspecies...
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