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Currently, the digital type catalogue of amphibians and reptiles in the seven major German research collections includes 1,948 data sets on primary and 1,148 on secondary type specimens, as well as 1,929 key references (ie original descriptions, taxonomic revisions). In addition, more than 2,862 photographs are available for the primary types. The data input is finished for the collections in Bonn, Dresden, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, and Stuttgart but is still ongoing in Berlin.