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Taxonomic Databases

Name	Focus	Collection	Details
India Biodiversity Portal	A unique repository of information on India's biodiversity	23265 species including 1291424 observations, 206 maps and 1933 documents	Click Here
GBIF	Focuses on all types of life on Earth	Collection of Global Biodiversity Information facility includes 1,643,948 species including 31,182 datasets	Click Here
International Organization for Plant Information		A Global Plant Checklist, encompassing about 300,000 vascular plant species and over 1,000,000 names, is the first priority. Eventually, the Checklist will include nonvascular plants (mosses, lichens, algae, and liverworts).	Click Here
ILDIS	Legumes	ILDIS is an international project which maintains a database of plants in the family Fabaceae (Leguminosae) and provides services to scientists and other people interested in these plants, including this web-site for access to the database. The ILDIS checklist is also supplied to the Catalogue of Life.	Click Here
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Tropicos		This system has nearly 1.3 million scientific names and over 4.4 million specimen records.	Click Here
GRIN		The Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) web server provides germplasm information about plants, animals, microbes and invertebrates. This program is within the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service.	Click Here
CJBG Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques			Click Here
The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Herbarium		RBGE's extensive Herbarium numbers nearly three million specimens representing half to two thirds of the world's flora.	Click Here
		With around 6 million specimens, the collection of the CJB is one of the most important in the world	Click Here
The Plant List	The Plant List is a working list of all known plant species. It aims to be comprehensive for species of Vascular plant (flowering plants, conifers, ferns and their allies) and of Bryophytes (mosses and liverworts)	The Plant List includes 1,064,035 scientific plant names belonging to 642 plant families and 17,020 plant genera	Click Here
World Checklist of Selected Plant Families	Latest peer reviewed (view reviewers) and published opinions on the accepted scientific names and synonyms of selected plant families	The checklist includes 173 Seed Plant families	Click Here
All Catfish Species Inventory	Catfish	Information collated by genera, including estimated numbers of species, taxonomic experts	Click Here
Arctos	Specimen holdings of several natural history museums, agencies, and accessible private collections	Vertebrates, invertebrates, parasites, vascular and non-vascular plants, many with images and extensive usage data.	Click Here
AntWeb	Ants	Specimen information, collection details, photographs, higher taxonomy	Click Here
ASEAN Biodiversity Information Sharing Service (BISS)	Amphibians, birds, butterflies, dragonflies, edible plants, freshwater fishes, mammals, plants, reptiles and Malesian mosses of Southeast Asia	IUCN status, habitat, regional presence/absence, description, classification	Click Here
CITES species database	Scientific names, higher taxonomy, distribution, photos and CITES quotas	Specimen information, collection details, photographs, higher taxonomy	Click Here
FishBase	Fish	Higher taxonomy, common names, distribution, IUCN Redlist status	Click Here
Freshwater Ecoregions of the World (FEOW)	Freshwater ecoregions	Maps of species and endemic numbers.	Click Here
HerpNET	Amphibians and reptiles	Amphibian/reptile distributions.	Click Here
WBPBDIVDB	A Database of Plant Biodiversity of West Bengal	Richness of floral diversity of West Bengal from Terai, Duars, Darjeeling, the eastern Himalayan region and in the mangrove forests of Sundarbans.	Click Here
Reptile Database	Reptiles	Taxonomic information, names, photos	Click Here
iNaturalist	All forms of life	Individual observations, location checklists, taxonomic information, range maps, and other information produced by citizen science participants and pulled from other databases	Click Here
Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS)	Australian plants	Taxonomic information, collection details, photographs	Click Here
iSpot	All forms of life large enough to photograph	Geolocated individual observations and other information produced by citizen science participants	Click Here
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)	All taxa of interest to North America, with other taxa included as available	Taxonomic information, including higher taxonomy	Click Here
Natural History Information System	All forms of life, biotopes, rocks	Faunistic and Floristic records (citizen science and other sources),phenology, ecology, biotopes, taxonomy, paleontology, stratigraphy	Click Here
NatureServe	Plants, animals, and ecosystems of the United States and Canada	An authoritative source for information on more than 70,000 plants, animals, and ecosystems of the United States and Canada. Explorer includes particularly in-depth coverage for rare and endangered species.	Click Here
WikiSpecies	All forms of life	Higher taxonomy, synonyms, vernacular names, references	Click Here
A Pan-European Species-directories Infrastructure (PESI)	European taxa	Authoritative taxonomic checklist of European species, including higher taxonomy, synonyms, vernacular names and European distribution	Click Here
Naturdata	Portuguese taxa	Checklist of Portuguese species including mainland and islands with a page for each species including taxonomy, synonyms, vernacular names, images, videos and Portuguese distribution	Click Here
ScaleNet	Scale insects (superfamily Coccoidea)	Nomenclature, distribution, hosts, systematics, references	Click Here
BacDive	Metadatabase that provides strain-linked information about bacterial and archaeal biodiversity.	Different kind of metadata like taxonomy, morphology, physiology, environment and molecular-biology.	Click Here

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