Since 2003, data concerning material, slides and taxa, existing within the Friedrich Hustedt Diatom centre, is being entered in a database. This has been available through the internet since 2004.

Already in the database are all specimens, named by Hustedt or deposited later by other workers, with the literature-, material- and slide-information. Taxon names are entered as they appear on the slides or on a sheet in a slidebox, although in some cases, recently proposed names are given under “comments”. We are continually adding illustrations of specimens; please contact us if a specimen of interest for you has no images in the database yet. (Taxon find)

The database also has a complete entry of all of the publications held in the library of the centre, now more than 8,000. (Publication find)

We are still working on the data concerning material and slides from Europe but such information from outside Europe is complete. (Accession find)

Hustedt himself published approximately 2000 new taxa. Belonging to them you will find in the database all the information on their publication and, under “comments”, the page and plates given by Dr. Reimer Simonsen in his “Atlas and Catalogue of Diatom Types of Friedrich Hustedt”.

Besides, the database stores information on types deposited in the collection by numerous other researchers - see more information under Type repository!

The database is now available through a new web interface; although the old interface will also remain on-line temporarily. For a brief explanation on the status of geo-referencing of our database records, see Georeferencing.