Description
Currently there are over 50,000 described spider species worldwide according to the world spider catalog (WSC). The study of spiders in Kenya is not well done and as of December 2018, 805 species were described from the region. Some of the species were considered nomen dubium and others described from juvenile species which are at best considered misidentified. The data presented here is a checklist of spider species described from Kenya up-to May of 2022. The species are described from Kenya and other regions of the world with some considered to be cosmopolitan. A total of 801 species from 58 families are represented in the data set. 320 out of the 801 species from this data set are considered endemic to Kenya. 84 species are genus types. The families Salticidae and Linyphiidae had the most species representatives i.e. 163 and 109 species respectively. The bracketed scientific name authorship represent species that have either been transferred to a new/different genus or have been synonymized with other species but maintain the original author. Letters in the scientific name authorship distinguish articles from authors who made multiple publications within the same year.
Enregistrements de données
Les données de cette ressource checklist ont été publiées sous forme d'une Archive Darwin Core (Darwin Core Archive ou DwC-A), le format standard pour partager des données de biodiversité en tant qu'ensemble d'un ou plusieurs tableurs de données. Le tableur de données du cœur de standard (core) contient 802 enregistrements.
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Comment citer
Les chercheurs doivent citer cette ressource comme suit:
Kioko G, Sese J (2022): A checklist dataset of the spider species from Kenya. v1.1. National Museums of Kenya. Dataset/Checklist. http://ipt.museums.or.ke/ipt/resource?r=spider_gk&v=1.1
Droits
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L’éditeur et détenteur des droits de cette ressource est National Museums of Kenya. Ce travail est sous licence Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0.
Enregistrement GBIF
Cette ressource a été enregistrée sur le portail GBIF, et possède l'UUID GBIF suivante : 3d04d37a-d861-461f-8c5b-8b96faf68148. National Museums of Kenya publie cette ressource, et est enregistré dans le GBIF comme éditeur de données avec l'approbation du GBIF Kenya.
Mots-clé
Arachnida; Araneae; checklist; Species; Kenya
Contacts
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Couverture géographique
The specimens represented here are from various locations in Kenya. Nine counties (Busia, Garissa, Kisii, Lamu, Mandera, Migori, Nandi, Siaya, and Vihiga) had no species records while the remaining 38 counties had records of species collection.
| Enveloppe géographique | Sud Ouest [-90, -180], Nord Est [90, 180] |
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Couverture taxonomique
Several families from the class Arachnida.
| Class | Arachnida |
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| Order | Araneae |
| Family | Agelenidae, Anapidae, Araneidae, Atypidae, Barychelidae, Caponiidae, Cheiracanthiidae, Cithaeronidae, Clubionidae, Corinnidae, Ctenidae, Cyatholipidae, Cyrtaucheniidae, Deinopidae, Dictynidae, Eresidae, Gnaphosidae, Hahniidae, Hersiliidae, Idiopidae, Ischnothelidae, Linyphiidae, Liocranidae, Lycosidae, Migidae, Mimetidae, Miturgidae, Mysmenidae, Ochyroceratidae, Oecobiidae, Oonopidae, Oxyopidae, Palpimanidae, Philodromidae, Pholcidae, Phyxelididae, Pisauridae, Prodidomidae, Pycnothelidae, Salticidae, Scytodidae, Segestriidae, Sicariidae, Sparassidae, Telemidae, Tetrablemmidae, Tetragnathidae, Theraphosidae, Theridiidae, Theridiosomatidae, Thomisidae, Trachelidae, Trochanteriidae, Uloboridae, Zodariidae, Zoropsidae |
Couverture temporelle
| Date de début / Date de fin | 1800-01-01 / 2022-01-01 |
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Méthodes d'échantillonnage
The dataset from this checklist was compiled from an online resource World Spider Catalog (2022). This was done by checking for data from distribution areas within Kenya, East Africa and Africa. Publications from East Africa and Africa were downloaded and checked if Kenya was listed as a collection locality. TaxonID/acceptedNameUsageID and parentNameUsageID used are similar to identifiers from WSC for easy search in the catalog. The spider checklist from Kenya published in 2021 was also a useful resource in data compilation for this checklist data.
| Etendue de l'étude | Specimen in the checklist were collected from various parts of Kenya with 38 out of the 47 counties having species representations. |
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| Contrôle qualité | The WSC is a site where all taxonomic papers on spiders are listed and its updated daily. The papers are from skilled arachnologists and from peer reviewed papers. |
Description des étapes de la méthode:
- Data mined from the World Spider Catalog was aligned to the Darwin Core Standard (taxon). The standardized data was then validated and uploaded to GBIF through the IPT.
Citations bibliographiques
- Kioko, G. M., Marusik, Y. M., Li, S. Q., Kioko, E. N. & Ji, L. Q. (2021). Checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of Kenya. African Invertebrates 62(1): 49-229. doi: 10.3897/AfrInvertebr.62.58776
- World Spider Catalog (2022). World Spider Catalog. Version 23.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch, accessed on {26th May 2022}. doi: 10.24436/2
Métadonnées additionnelles
| Objet | The checklist is an important dataset in the study of spiders as it highlights the species described from Kenya. In addition, it helps to show the gaps of taxonomy study in the region and therefore promoting study in the area. |
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| Identifiants alternatifs | http://ipt.museums.or.ke/ipt/resource?r=spider_gk |