Mantis 

URL: 

   http://140.247.119.145/Mantis/  

Source of information: 

website & feedback to questionnaire 

Last updated:   

July 2003 

Contact 

Name:  

Piotr Naskrecki 

information 

Address: 

Museum of Comparative Zoology, 

Harvard University, 26 Oxford St., 

  Cambridge, 

MA 

02138, 

  USA 

Email:  

p.naskrecki@conservation.org 

Availability and 

Free of cost download from 

http://140.247.119.145/Mantis/

 . For 

cost 

web publishing FileMaker Pro Unlimited is needed, for the 

standalone version no additional software is required. 

Specialization by 

All taxa 

taxonomic group 

Computing 

Microsoft Windows 98 / NT 4 or later, Apple MacOS 8.6   9.22 or 

platform 

OS X 

Limitations to 

No limitations documented, database system is 

FileMaker 6.0

scalability 

Data import 

Filemaker import capabilities: Text, FileMaker, SYLK, DIF, Lotus, 

capabilities and/or 

Merge, Basic, dBase, Excel, ODBC, XML 

limitations 

Data export 

Filemaker export capabilities: Text, FileMaker, SYLK, DIF, Lotus, 

capabilities and/or 

Merge, Basic, DBIF, HTML table, XML; exporting embedded 

limitations 

images requires a third party plug in 

Size and 

200 250 individual users worldwide. 

distribution of user  Databases published online: Type Collection of the Museum of 

base 

Comparative Zoology, Harvard University Household Pests of New 

England, Orthoptera Species File (Katydids), Harvard Database of 

Caribbean Insects, University of Nebraska Insect Collection 

Source of user 

http://140.247.119.145/Mantis/ 

documentation 

Database model 

No information 

documentation 

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