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<p>The <b>Reptile Database</b> is a scientific <a href="Database" title="Database">database</a> that collects taxonomic information on all living <a href="Reptile" title="Reptile">reptile</a> <a href="Species" title="Species">species</a> (i.e. no fossil species such as <a href="Dinosaur" title="Dinosaur">dinosaurs</a>). The database focuses on species (as opposed to higher ranks such as families) and has entries for all currently recognized ~14,000 species and their subspecies,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> although there is usually a lag time of up to a few months before newly described species become available online. The database collects scientific and common names, synonyms, literature references, distribution information, type information, <a href="Etymology" title="Etymology">etymology</a>, and other taxonomically relevant information.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div>

<p>The database was founded in 1995 as EMBL Reptile Database<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> when the founder, Peter Uetz, was a graduate student at the <a href="European_Molecular_Biology_Laboratory" title="European Molecular Biology Laboratory">European Molecular Biology Laboratory</a> (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany. Thure Etzold had developed the first web interface for the EMBL DNA sequence database which was also used as interface for the Reptile Database. In 2006, the database moved to <a href="J._Craig_Venter_Institute" title="J. Craig Venter Institute">The Institute of Genomic Research</a> (TIGR) and briefly operated as TIGR Reptile Database<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> until TIGR was merged into the <a href="J_Craig_Venter_Institute" class="mw-redirect" title="J Craig Venter Institute">J Craig Venter Institute</a> (JCVI) where Uetz was an associate professor until 2010. Since 2010, the database has been maintained on servers in the Czech Republic under the supervision of Peter Uetz and Jirí Hošek, a Czech programmer.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The database celebrated its 25th anniversary together with <a href="AmphibiaWeb" title="AmphibiaWeb">AmphibiaWeb</a> which had its 20th anniversary in 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<p>As of August 2024, the Reptile Database lists about 12,200 species (including another ~2,200 subspecies) in about 1250 <a href="Genus" title="Genus">genera</a> (see figure), and has more than 60,000 literature references and about 22,000 photos. The database has constantly grown since its inception with an average of 100 to 200 new species described per year over the preceding decade.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Recently, the database also added a more or less complete list of primary <a href="Type_(biology)" title="Type (biology)">type specimens</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Relationship_to_other_databases">Relationship to other databases</h2></div>

<p>The Reptile Database has been a member of the <a href="Species_2000" title="Species 2000">Species 2000</a> project that has produced the <a href="Catalogue_of_Life" title="Catalogue of Life">Catalogue of Life</a> (CoL), a meta-database of more than 150 species databases that catalog all living species on the planet.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The CoL provides taxonomic information to the <i><a href="Encyclopedia_of_Life" title="Encyclopedia of Life">Encyclopedia of Life</a></i> (EoL). The Reptile Database also collaborates with the <a href="World_Register_of_Marine_Species" title="World Register of Marine Species">World Register of Marine Species</a> (WoRMS), the <a href="Citizen_science" title="Citizen science">citizen science</a> project <a href="INaturalist" title="INaturalist">iNaturalist</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and has links to the <a href="IUCN" class="mw-redirect" title="IUCN">IUCN</a> Redlist database. The <a href="National_Center_for_Biotechnology_Information" title="National Center for Biotechnology Information">NCBI</a> taxonomy database links out to the Reptile Database.

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<ul><li><span class="nowrap"><span class="skin-invert-image noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span></span></span> </span><a href="Portal%3AReptiles" title="Portal:Reptiles">Reptiles portal</a></li></ul>

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</style><cite id="CITEREFUetzStylianou2018" class="citation journal cs1">Uetz, Peter; Stylianou, Alexandrea (2018). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/viewFile/zootaxa.4375.2.5/13578">"The original descriptions of reptiles and their subspecies"</a>. <i>Zootaxa</i>. <b>4375</b> (2): <span class="nowrap">257–</span>264. <a href="Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<span class="id-lock-free" title="Freely accessible"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.11646%2Fzootaxa.4375.2.5">10.11646/zootaxa.4375.2.5</a></span>. <a href="PMID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="PMID (identifier)">PMID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29689772">29689772</a>.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFUetz,_P.Etzold,_T.1996" class="citation journal cs1">Uetz, P.; Etzold, T. (1996). "The EMBL/EBI Reptile Database". <i>Herpetological Review</i>. <b>27</b> (4): <span class="nowrap">174–</span>175.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFUetz,_P.J._GollJ._Hallermann2007" class="citation journal cs1">Uetz, P.; J. Goll; J. Hallermann (2007). "Die TIGR-Reptiliendatenbank". <i>Elaphe</i>. <b>15</b> (3): <span class="nowrap">22–</span>25.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFUetz2021" class="citation journal cs1">Uetz, Peter; et al. (16 June 2021). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352462027">"A Quarter Century of Reptile and Amphibian Databases"</a>. <i>Herpetological Review</i>. <b>52</b>: <span class="nowrap">246–</span>255 – via ResearchGate.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFUetz2010" class="citation journal cs1">Uetz, P. (2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/zt02334p068.pdf">"The original descriptions of reptiles"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>Zootaxa</i>. <b>2334</b> (1): <span class="nowrap">59–</span>68. <a href="Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<span class="id-lock-free" title="Freely accessible"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.11646%2Fzootaxa.2334.1.3">10.11646/zootaxa.2334.1.3</a></span>.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/info/databases">Catalogue of Life Source databases</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200917000110/http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/info/databases">Archived</a> 2020-09-17 at the <a href="Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, accessed Aug 2015</span>

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<li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.inaturalist.org/">"iNaturalist"</a>. <i>Inaturalist.org</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">9 June</span> 2022</span>.</cite></span>

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