Arachnology database search

This site contains a database of the type holdings of the Australian Museum Arachnology collection.

The database will be of primary interest to scientists working in the field. However, non-scientists are more than welcome to use it.

The database lists types by the scientific name under which they were originally described. At this stage the senior synonym (current valid name of the species) is not given. Some of the scientific names listed are no longer in use.

Each record contains order name, family name, type name, type status, author, description date, AMS registration number and collection locality. A small number of records lack author and /or description date. These are old types which were not well labelled and this information has not yet been traced.

If a query results in more than one record, the types are listed in a brief format. More detailed data can be found on each type by clicking on the registration number.

The Arachnology database has developed over many years. Understandably however, there are likely to be some errors. Use the information with discretion and if you would like further details, or have found errors, contact Graham Milledge, the Collection Supervisor.

Each has been recorded as representing holotype, paratype, syntype, lectotype, paralectotype, neotype, allotype, cotype, type and type var material. Following are definitions of these terms:

• Holotype: A single specimen designated as the name-bearing type of a species or subspecies when it was established, or the single specimen on which such a taxon was based when no type was specified.
• Paratype: Each specimen of a type series other than the holotype.
• Syntype: Each specimen of a type series from which neither a holotype nor a lectotype has been designated.
• Lectotype: A syntype designated as the single name-bearing type specimen subsequent to the establishment of a nominal species or subspecies.
• Paralectotype: Each specimen of a former syntype series remaining after the designation of a lectotype.
• Neotype: The single specimen designated as the name-bearing type of a nominal species or subspecies for which no holotype, or lectotype, or syntype(s), or prior neotype, is believed to exist.
• Allotype: A designated specimen of opposite sex to the holotype.
• Cotype: A term previously used for either syntype or paratype.
• Type: Specimens simply labeled 'type' are generally those where no holotype was originally designated.
• Type var: Type of a variety. A name published for a variety is considered suspecific if published before 1961 and infrasubspecific if published after 1960.

Definitions of all these terms can be found in the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature.

Arachnology database search

Please choose ONE of the following:

Select a Family:

Actinopodidae Amaurobiidae Amphinectidae Anapidae Anisitsiellidae Anyphaenidae Araneidae Argasidae Assamiidae Atemnidae Austrochilidae Barychelidae Caddidae Callipodidae Cheliferidae Chernetidae Chthoniidae Clubionidae Corinnidae Ctenidae Cycloctenidae Cyrtaucheniidae Dalodesmidae Deinopidae Desidae Dipluridae Dysderidae Echiniscidae Eurypauropodidae Eylaidae Filistatidae Gagrellidae Garypidae Geophilomorphae Glomeridae Gnaphosidae Gradungulidae Hahniidae Hammeriellidae Henicopidae Hersiliidae Hexathelidae Holarchaeidae Hydrodromidae Hydryphantidae Hygrobatidae Ibaloniidae Idiopidae Iulomorphidae Ixodidae Julidae Lamponidae Linyphiidae Lycosidae Macrobiotidae Malkaridae Megalopsalididae Metopidiotrichidae Micropholcommatidae Milnesiidae Mimetidae Miturgidae Mysmenidae Nemesiidae Neopilionidae Nicodamidae Olpiidae Oonopidae Orsolobidae Oxyopidae Pachybolidae Paradoxosomatidae Paradoxsomatidae Pararchaeidae Pauropodidae Pedrocortesellidae Peripatopsidae Pettalidae Pezidae Phalangodidae Pheroliodidae Pholcidae Pionidae Plasmobatidae Pseudogarypodidae Pseudonannolenidae Rhinocricidae Salticidae Schizomidae Schizopetalidae Scolopendridae Scorpionidae Scytodidae Sparassidae Sphaerotheriidae Spirobolellidae Stiphidiidae Symphytognathidae Synotaxidae Tetragnathidae Theraphosidae Theridiidae Thomisidae Thrombidiidae Toxopidae Trachysphaeridae Triaenonychidae Tridenchthoniidae Uloboridae Zodariidae Zoridae

Select an Order:

Acari Araneae Callipodida Chordeumatida Geophilomorpha Glomerida Julida Lithobiida Onychophora Opiliones Pauropoda Polydesmida Pseudoscorpiones Schizomida Scolopendrida Scorpiones Sphaerotheriida Spirobolida Spirostreptida Tardigrada

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Allotype Cotype Holotype Lectotype Neotype Paralectotype Paratype Syntype Type

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