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BIOSIS Resources - Includes the Index to Organism Names, a publicly available subset of TRITON the Taxonomy Resource, and the Zoological Record Thesaurus.
http://www.biosis.org.uk/free_resources/ |
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Biodiversity Explorer - Classification of all forms of life, with some photos. Has a strong South African emphasis.
http://www.museums.org.za/bio |
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BiologyBase - Checklists, articles, and links for the world of life.
http://www.biologybase.com/ |
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Canadian Version of Integrated Taxonomic Information System - Searchable database of four kingdoms: plant, animal, fungi, monera. Search by scientific or common names, English or French.
http://sis.agr.gc.ca/pls/itisca/taxaget?p_ifx=aafc |
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Census of Marine Life - A global network of researchers engaged in a ten-year initiative to assess and explain the past, present, and future diversity, distribution, and abundance of marine life in the oceans.
http://www.coml.org/ |
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Flora and Fauna of the Great Lakes - Provides access to materials from the fish, mammal, and fungus collections of the University of Michigan, USA. Includes many images of specimens.
http://www.lib.umich.edu/programs/greatlakes/ |
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Kingdoms Project - Project to establish web-based databases of organisms and other natural sciences subjects. Includes information about some taxonomic groups.
http://www.il-st-acad-sci.org/kingdoms.html |
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Lepidoptera and Other Life Forms - Taxonomic tree of mammals, insects, birds, and plants. Includes common and scientific names, publication details, references, links, general range maps, and some images. Most complete for Lepidoptera.
http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/intro.html |
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Mikko's Phylogeny Archive - A compilation of various phylogenetic trees representing different views of taxonomy. Includes links to other taxonomic websites.
http://www.fmnh.helsinki.fi/users/haaramo/index.htm |
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NCBI Taxonomy - Searchable and browsable taxonomy tree of organisms for which there are publicly available gene sequences.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/taxonomyhome.html/ |
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Natural Perspective - Dedicated to the beauty and science of nature and to the joys nature brings to those who explore it. The material here is organized according to the biological principles of Taxonomy.
http://www.perspective.com/nature/index.html |
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Natural Selection - A gateway to quality, evaluated Internet resources in the natural world co-ordinated by The Natural History Museum, London.
http://nature.ac.uk/ |
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Survey of the Plant Kingdoms - Explores plant anatomy, taxonomy, and classification, from Monera through the higher plants. Includes descriptions as well as graphics and schematics.
http://home.manhattan.edu/~frances.cardillo/plants/intro/ |
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Wikispecies - Wikimedia Foundation project that aims to catalog all species.
http://species.wikipedia.org/ |
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World Biodiversity Database - A growing taxonomic database and information system that aims at documenting all presently known species (about 1.7 million). Taxonomic trees, descriptions, synonyms, literature citations, and molecular database queries.
http://www.eti.uva.nl/Database/ |
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World's Boreal Forests: Animal and Plant Species - Fact sheets and photos for mammals, birds, trees and other plants of boreal regions.
http://www.borealforest.org/world/world_species.htm |
