About "Taxon list of Coleoptera from Germany compiled in the context of the GBOL project"

Taxon list of Coleoptera from Germany compiled in the context of the GBOL Project

(TaxRefCode: TaxRef_GBOL_Coleoptera_DE, Projects_TNT ID: 855)

Characteristics of the taxon list

• Info about Coleoptera in Wikipedia under https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Käfer and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beetle

• Number of species estimated worldwide: more than 400,000

• Number of taxon names below genus level in this list: more than 6,700

• Synonyms: no

• Higher classification is included.

• List curator(s): Dr. Dirk Ahrens

Technical info

The DTN Taxon lists services concept is described under https://www.diversitymobile.net/wiki/DTN_Taxon_Lists_Services. The taxon lists are offered via several open and freely accessible services with a dynamic data flow involving DTN data bases DTN Software and DTN Information model. A REST API called "DWB REST Webservice for Taxon Lists", shortly "DTNtaxonlists", is developed (Starting page and documentation). The services are offered via the "Taxon-names-and-terms-(TNT)" server at the SNSB IT Center and accessed by the GFBio Terminology Server.

General info

The activities to create and publish regional DTN lists started in 2012 as cooperation between the DiversityMobile/IBF project and GBOL. Since 2014 the initiative was part of the German Federation for Biological Data (=GFBio) project with involvement of the SMNS, SNSB and ZFMK. Starting with 2021 there is a DWB user help desk with support by the NFDI4Biodiversity consortium.

The following organisations and projects are active in supporting curation activities of the Coleoptera list:

• Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Bonn (ZFMK) – list curation

• German Barcode of Life (GBOL) – coordination of taxon list mobilisation and curation: Björn Rulik (ZFMK), Jérôme Morinière and Jörg Spelda (SNSB–ZSM)

• German Federation for Biological Data (GFBio) – coordination of taxon list mobilisation and curation: Joachim Holstein, Juan Carlos Monje (SMNS) and Tanja Weibulat (SNSB)

The list should be cited as: Ahrens, D. (2015 onwards). Taxon list of Coleoptera from Germany compiled in the context of the GBOL Project. – [accessed e. g. through the DWB REST Webservice for Taxon Lists under http://services.snsb.info/DTNtaxonlists/rest/v0.1/static/api-doc.html or as csv download, 2015-08-12]

The list is offered under Creative Commons License CC BY 4.0.

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Literature:

• KÖHLER, F. & KLAUSNITZER, B. (1998): Verzeichnis der Käfer Deutschlands. – Entomofauna Germanica. – Ent. Nachr. Ber., Beiheft 4, Dresden: 1–185.

• RULIK, B., EBERLE, J., VON DER MARK, l., THORMANN, J., JUNG, M., KÖHLER, F., APFEL, W., WEIGEL, A., KOPETZ, A., KÖHLER, J., FRITZLAR, F., HARTMANN, M., HADULLA, K., SCHMIDT, J., HÖRREN, T., KREBS, D., THEVES, F., EULITZ, U., SKALE, A., ROHWEDDER, D., KLEEBERG, A., ASTRIN, J. J., GEIGER, M. F., WÄGELE, J. W., GROBE, P. & AHRENS, D. Using taxonomic consistency with semi-automated data pre-processing for high quality DNA barcodes. Methods Ecol. Evol. 2017;00:1–10. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12824 [Supporting information]

• SCHMIDT, J., TRAUNTER, J. & MÜLLER-MOTZFELD, G. (2016): Rote Liste und Gesamtartenliste der Laufkäfer (Coleoptera: Carabidae) Deutschlands. – In: GRUTTKE, H., BINOT-HAFKE, M., BALZER, S., HAUPT, H., HOFBAUER, N., LUDWIG, G., MATZKE-HAJEK, G. & RIES, M. (Red.): Rote Liste gefährdeter Tiere, Pflanzen und Pilze Deutschlands. Band 4: Wirbellose Tiere (Teil 2). – Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt 70 (4): 139–204.

• SPITZENBERG, D., SONDERMANN, W., HENDRICH, L., HESS, M. & HECKES, U. (2016): Rote Liste und Gesamtartenliste der wasserbewohnenden Käfer (Coleoptera aquatica) Deutschlands. – In: GRUTTKE, H., BINOT-HAFKE, M., BALZER, S., HAUPT, H., HOFBAUER, N., LUDWIG, G., MATZKE-HAJEK, G. & RIES, M. (Red.): Rote Liste gefährdeter Tiere, Pflanzen und Pilze Deutschlands. Band 4: Wirbellose Tiere (Teil 2). – Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt 70 (4): 205–246.