GrylTett database 3 Jan 2003Page 1

GrylTett database
Names for tables and fields as of 22 Oct 2003

GrylTett.mdb is a database for storing the information on crickets and katydids accumulated by Thomas J. Walker, University of Florida, from 1955 to date. The current version is in Microsoft Access 2000. Until January 2003, the database was in Access 1997. The most recent version that can be used with Access 1997 is OldGrylTett.mdb. It was last updated 31 Dec 2002.

Tables

tblAbbreviations [abbreviations used in other tables; 73 records]

AbbrevID

Table

Field

Abbreviation

Meaning

Notes

tblCommonNames [of higher categories; 102 records]

Name

CommonName

Level [family, subfamily, genus]

DateAdded

DateEdited

tblFieldNotes[1443 records]

FieldNoteID

CollDate

CollNo

Country

State

County

GeographID

Locality

Habitat

Collector

SourceNo

Notes

DateAdded

DateEdited

tblFieldNoteSources [where hardcopy of field notes can be found; 10 records]

SourceNo

Description

tblGeographIDs [includes FIPS codes for USA states and counties; 3145 records]

GeographID

Country

State

StateCode [Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) codes for USA states]

County

CountyCode [FIPS codes for USA counties]

Locality

Notes

DateAdded

DateEdited

tblSpecies [names of species of N. Amer. & West Indian katydids and crickets; 459 records]

SpeciesNo [numbers assigned to species in Walker Tape Library; later expanded to include all North American species (even if not tape recorded)]

Genus

SpecificName

Author

Bracket [for denoting whether author originally placed species in a genus other than its present one]

Year [of original description]

Superfamily

FamOrSubfamily

Codon

OSFO2No [taxon number from Orthoptera Species File Online, version 2]

SINA [“yes” means taxon is listed in Singing Insects of North America [SINA]; “(no)” means that the taxon occurs in the region covered by SINA, but that it currently represents no species listed in SINA; “no” means that taxon is not known to occur in region covered by SINA.]

CommonName

Synonyms

Notes

DateAdded

DateEdited

tblRecordedSongs [records in Walker Tape Library; 9627 records]

RSongID

Year

CutNo

Codon

Genus

Specific Name

SpeciesNo

IndivNo

Take

Notes

Country

State

County

Locality

GeographID

CollDate [name of field not always descriptive; individuals taped in field were often not collected]

CollNo

Habitat

Collector

Specimen

Sex

TapeDate

TempC

Place

Conditions

TapedBy

Parabola

Microphone

Recorder

Timing

Quality

Background

NotesOnTape

RecNo [from Access 97 database]

RecPrefix [always RS]

FlagNo [always 2]

MLNS [status of archiving by Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds, Cornell University]

LNSCatNo [ID No. of digitized song in MLNS]

CDNo [ID No. of CD-ROM that has the digitized song (with taped specimens in FSCA)]

DateAdded

DateEdited

tblMain [24,254 records]

MainRecID

RecPrefix

RecNo [from Access 97 database]

Genus

SpecificName

SpeciesNo

Country

State

County

GeographID

Locality

Individuals

CollDate [name of field sometimes misleading: HS specimens and some LN and RS specimens were not collected; recordings of free insects assigned CollDate that equals TapeDate]

CollNo [refers to tblFieldNotes]

CollEndingDate [last date of range of dates]

NSDateBegin [nonstandard date begin]

NSDateEnd [nonstandard date end]

Collector [for HS records and some LN and RS records, specimens not collected]

Source [museum or collection; used only for SP records

Origin [intermediate or final source of record= where record was copied from or , if new, who entered it]

AuthorName [LN records only; includes authors of notes]

PubDate [LN records only; includes years of notes]

Page [LN records only and only for literature records]

Notes

FlagNo

DateAdded

DateEdited