Directory Sites

  • HabitasOnline

    Information on the plants, animals, and fossils of Ireland. Includes an encyclopedia of marine life of the UK. From the Ulster Museum Sciences Division.

    www.habitas.org.uk

  • Utah Conservation Data Center

    Database of photos and fact sheets for animals and plants occurring in this state. Includes lists of sensitive, threatened, and endangered species.

    dwrcdc.nr.utah.gov

  • Nature of New England

    Photos, facts, and links to information about birds, butterflies, mammals, and wildflowers of this region.

    www.nenature.com

  • Wikispecies

    Wikimedia Foundation project that aims to catalog all species.

    species.wikipedia.org

  • 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.

    tolweb.org

  • Discover Life

    Information about taxonomy, natural history, distribution, abundance, and ecology of many species worldwide. Includes tools to identify, map, and database species.

    www.discoverlife.org

  • Thomson: Free Resources

    Includes the Index to Organism Names, a publicly available subset of TRITON the Taxonomy Resource, and the Zoological Record Thesaurus.

    scientific.thomson.com

  • iSpecies

    A species search engine from Rod Page of Glasgow University. Search on either the common or Latin name of a species. Results are generated by querying other data sources.

    darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk

  • Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: Integrated Taxonomic Information System

    Searchable database of four kingdoms: plant, animal, fungi, monera. Search by scientific or common names, English or French.

    sis.agr.gc.ca

  • 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.

    www.nic.funet.fi

  • Integrated Taxonomic Information System

    Authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world.

    www.itis.gov

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