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BSPM424 - Principles of Systematic Zoology
Research help for BSPM424 students.
Web Links for Taxonomy & Zoology
Selected links to Web-based materials.
- Smithsonian North American MammalsSearch for information on mammals by location, species name, family tree, and conservation status.
- ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System)Authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world.
- ICZN International Commission on Zoological NomenclatureThe official body responsible for providing and regulating the system for ensuring that every animal has a unique and universally accepted scientific name. Mission: The ICZN is dedicated to achieving stability and sense in the scientific naming of animals. Vision: The ICZN acting in the capacity of adviser and arbiter, assists the zoological community through generation and dissemination of information.
- ZooBankThe Prototype Online Registry for Zoological Nomenclature. ZooBank is intended as the official registry of Zoological Nomenclature, according to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN
- Catalogue of Life (CoL)Internationally managed database of taxonomic names
Taxonomy Links from the University of Hawaii Library
Additional web resources found on the University of Hawaii Entomology guide:
- antbase.org
Antbase is a collaborative effort between scientists from around the world, aiming at providing the best possible access to the wealth of information on ants. Searchable by taxon or author.
- AntWeb
AntWeb illustrates this diversity by providing information and high quality color images of many of the approximately 10,000 known species of ants. AntWeb currently focuses on the species of the Nearctic and Malagasy biogeographic regions, and the ant genera of the world. Over time, the site will grow to describe every species of ant known.
- LepIndex
(Natural History Museum, UK) LepIndex is an archive to the scientific names of the living and fossil butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) of the world.
- Lucidcentral Key Search
Provides access to a number of entomological databases including an identification guide to Hawaiian Fancy-cased caterpillars and moths, citrus pests, and many more. Mobile apps also available.
- NCBI Taxonomy
(National Center for Biotechnology Information) The NCBI taxonomy database contains the names of all organisms that are represented in the genetic databases with at least one nucleotide or protein sequence. This database is searchable by both common and scientific names and provides lineages for many taxa as well as links to gene and protein data and other external Internet resources. The "Taxonomy Resources" link in the left hand column provides an extensive list of other Internet taxonomy guides and databases.
- Systematic Entomology: a guide to online insect systematic resources
(North Carolina State University Libraries and Department of Entomology) Resources at this site can be accessed through a categorical index, a taxonomic index, a drop down menu of scientific and common names, and a keyword search.
Images from the National Agriculture Library
Carl von Linne image from the National Agriculture Library's (NAL) special collections:
More Carl von Linne materials.
Online Zoological Reference Resources
Some other, related zoological resources you may want to use.
- Birds of the WorldCoverage: Current
Life histories of over 760 bird species that breed in the United States and Canada. In-depth, authoritative summary of scientific literature and media, species accounts are accompanied by sounds, images, and video, and distributional maps and model output.
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