Taxonomy and Indentification
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- African Mammals Databank - GIS-based information.
- AmphibiaWeb - site specialising in amphibian data.
- Animal diversity web - database of animals with images and data on distribution etc.
- Animal Info - simple database of rare, threatened and endangered species.
- Australian Biological Resources Study - the continent's flora and fauna in databases.
- Avibase - said to contain 1,400,000 bird records - a global database.
- Biodiversity Data Portal - Part of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility
- Bioimages - image collection from Vanderbilt University
- Bioinformatics@Harvard - large database (mainly insects) but growing!
- BumblebeeID - UK Natural History Museum exhibit
- Global Taxonomy Initiative - A CBD program to improve taxonomic data (see UK version).
- Harvard University Botanical Databases - links to a range of sources
- International Organisation for Plant Information - European datasets
- Kew Gardens: botanical information. Search this site for external data or EPIC for Kew's holdings.
- Natural History Museum Botanical Database - UK
- Natural Science Collections Alliance - portal-type site for databases
- Plant Identification - part of a 'Science and Plants for Schools' project at Cambridge University.
- Plants National Database - US site.
- Raintree - plants of the Amazon rainforest
- Red Data List - database of threatened animlas and plants
- Species 2000 - aims to be a complete global record for biodiversity
- Virtual Herarium - NY Botanical Garden's lists of specimens
- Wildflowers and weeds - small site showing new ways of identifying plants.