title: Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist.
abstract: The research of the spider fauna of Slovenia dates back to the very beginning of binomial nomenclature, and has gone through more and less prolific phases with authors concentrating on taxonomy, faunistics, ecology and zoogeographic reviews. Although the body of published works is remarkable for a small nation, the faunistic data has remained too scattered for a thorough understanding of regional biotic diversity, for comparative and ecological research, and for informed conservation purposes. A national checklist is long overdue. Here, a critical review of all published records in any language is provided. The species list currently comprises 738 species, is published online at http://www.bioportal.si/katalog/araneae.php under the title Araneae Sloveniae, and will be updated in due course. This tool will fill the void in cataloguing regional spider faunas and will facilitate further araneological research in central and southern Europe.
authors: Department of Biology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
authors: Rok
authors: R
authors: Kostanjšek
authors: Institute of Biology, Scientific Research Centre, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia ; Centre for Behavioural Ecology & Evolution, College of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, China ; National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA.
authors: Matjaž
authors: M
authors: Kuntner
keywords: Faunistics; Palearctic; Slovenia; ecology; regional faunas; species richness
references: Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2004 Apr;31(1):225-45
references: 15019622
references: Biodivers Data J. 2013 Sep 16;(1):e980
references: 24723774
references: Biodivers Data J. 2015 Jan 21;(3):e4301
references: 25698090