The World Spider Catalog (WSC) is an online searchable database concerned with spidertaxonomy. It aims to list all accepted families, genera and species, as well as provide access to the related taxonomic literature.
The order Araneae has the seventh-most species of all orders. The WSC's existence 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]
References
^"Introduction", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2019-12-30
^"Welcome page", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2022-06-12
^Miller, J.A.; Agosti, D.; Penev, L.; Sautter, G.; Georgiev, T.; Catapano, T.; Patterson, D.; King, D.; Pereira, S.; Vos, R.A. & Sierra, S. (2015), "Integrating and visualizing primary data from prospective and legacy taxonomic literature", Biodiversity Data Journal, 3 (3): e5063, doi:10.3897/BDJ.3.e5063, PMC4442254, PMID26023286