Reptile Database

The Reptile Database is an online scientific database for systematic information on reptiles ( in the paraphyletic sense). The focus of the database is stored on taxonomic data at the species level, for virtually any sort of a record exists. The search engine is the most important tool for navigation. Each record contains higher-level taxa, first describer description year, the dissemination at the country level as well as a bibliography. In some species, and photographs are available. Since 2007, new records are information on diagnostic features, etymology (usually the Artepithetons ) specified and altitude data, and supplemented, if possible in old records.

The Reptile Database was founded in late 1995 as EMBL Reptile Database, mid- 1996 the database with a search engine online. The servers were asked by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory ( EMBL). As the end of 2006, the last members of the Reptile Database, EMBL left, EMBL announced the support of the database. Finally, The Institute of Genomic Research (TIGR ) offered to provide the server. The start and orientation pages founded in Germany database are still stored on the servers, the actual records are now stored on servers located in the Czech Republic. Currently responsible for The Reptile Database are Peter Uetz, and Jirí Hošek.

The Reptile Database linked to the herpetological literature that is available online, for example, Linnaeus ' Systema Naturae "or Bibrons and Dumeril " Érpetologie générale ". Currently ( February 2014 ) contains The Reptile Database records over 9,900 types of reptiles.