BiologyBase:
Checklists, articles, and links for the world of life.
http://www.biologybase.com/
Integrated Taxonomic Information System:
Authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and
microbes of North America and the world.
http://www.itis.usda.gov/
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/
BioImages - Virtual Fieldguide for UK Biodiversity:
Large selection of pictures of organisms, mostly British in origin.
Images are an aid to identification, showing different stages,
states and views of the organisms. Search the database or follow a
taxonomic tree.
http://www.bioimages.org.uk/
Biodiversity Explorer:
Classification of all forms of life, with some photos. Has a strong
South African emphasis.
http://www.museums.org.za/bio
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
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/
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/
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
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://web1.manhattan.edu/fcardill/plants/intro/
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
Tree of Life:
Phylogenetic tree with information about the diversity of organisms
on Earth, their history, and characteristics. An on-going
multi-authored project hosted by the University of Arizona.
http://tolweb.org/
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
Discover Life:
Information about taxonomy, natural history, distribution,
abundance, and ecology of many different groups of living things,
with focus on Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA.
http://www.discoverlife.org/
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/
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/
ARKive:
Non-profit initiative of The Wildscreen Trust with photographs,
movie clips, sound recordings, and brief desriptions of selected
endangered and protected species of Britain and the rest of the
world.
http://www.arkive.org/
