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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.


  • Animal Diversity Web The University of Michigan's Museum of Zoology's database of animal natural history, distribution, classification and conservation biology.

  • 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.

  • International Code of Zoological Nomenclature Adopted by the International Union of Biological Sciences.

  • Museum of Comparative Zoology Harvard University.

  • National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • ZooBank The world register of animal names, ZooBank is a collaboration between the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) and Thomson Zoological Ltd. to provide open-access to zoological data in Thomson Zoological's Index of Organism Names (ION).

  • Zoological Society of London (ZSL) A charity devoted to the worldwide conservation of animals and their habitats. ZSL's scientists in the laboratory and the field, animal management teams and veterinarians contribute wide-ranging skills and experience to both practical conservation and to the scientific research that underpins this work.




If you have any questions about the resources or services available to the biomedical sciences community please contact Deb Werner, Biomedical Reference Librarian or Christa Modschiedler, Biomedical Bibliographer & Reference Librarian. You may also email the Crerar Reference Staff.

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