Link on the www: Taxonomy Resources

Taxonomy Resources

The internet sites were selected based upon the authority and/or reputation of the issuing body in addition to the quality and organization of the website.

• AnimalBase The University of Göttingen, Germany developed AnimalBase to provide free access, for all scientists, to digitzed older zoological literature, particularly to important publications where name-bearing zoological taxa were originally described. Monographic works and journal articles are both digitized.
  
  
• Guide to the Animal Kingdom for Students and Educators A simplified (and somewhat abbreviated) classification scheme for the whole animal kingdom. It represents a fairly traditional view of animal phylogeny (and is basically the scheme followed for information organization within the Zoological Record indexing service).
  
  
• Index to Organism Names (ION) ION contains all the animal, plant, and virus names data found within the Thomson literature databases Zoological Record, BIOSIS Previews, and Biological Abstracts. Bacteria names will be added soon.
  
  
• International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (St. Louis Code) Adopted by the Sixteenth International Botanical Congress St Louis, Missouri.
  
  
• International Code of Zoological Nomenclature The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature's online Code. Adopted by the International Union of Biological Sciences.
  
  
• Mammals Species of the World (MSW) Contains the names of the 4,629 currently recognized species of mammals, in a taxonomic hierarchy that includes Order, Family, Subfamily, and Genus. The information was taken from: Wilson, D. E., and D. M. Reeder (eds). 1993. Mammal Species of the World. Smithsonian Institution Press.
  
  
• National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII): Systematics A broad, collaborative program to provide increased access to data and information on the nation's biological resources. The NBII links diverse, high-quality biological databases, information products, and analytical tools maintained by NBII partners and other contributors in government agencies, academic institutions, non-government organizations, and private industry.
  
  
• NCBI Taxonomy Homepage. Contains names for organisms whose sequences have been made public by the collaborating sequence database EMBL, DDBJ, and NCBI/GenBank or by one of the other public databases that are indexed in Entrez (including the Swiss-Prot, PIR and PRF protein sequence databases and the PDB structure database).
  
  
• Nomenclator Zoologicus A list of the names of the genera and subgenera in zoology from the 10th ed. of Linnaeus, 1758 to 2004. The Zoological Society of London.
  
  
• Nomenclatural Glossary for Zoology This glossary is based on a text intended to aid indexers in the production of nomenclatural entries for the Zoological Record. It covers terminology commonly encountered within publications dealing with the systematics and nomenclature of animals. Formerly by BIOSIS; now by Thomson Scientific.
  
  
• Tree of Life The Tree of Life is a project containing information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their history, and characteristics. The information is linked together in the form of the evolutionary tree that connects all organisms to each other.
  
  
• TreeBASE A relational database designed to manage and explore information on phylogenetic relationships. Its main function is to store published phylogenetic trees and data matrices. It also includes bibliographic information on phylogenetic studies, and some details on taxa, characters, algorithms used, and analyses performed.