User:Gaurav/Biodiversity databases
Here is some information on biodiversity databases I collected once. Someday I (or someone else) will hopefully move them into List of biodiversity databases.
| Name | URL | Type | Focus | Collection | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature | http://www.bacterio.cict.fr/ | Taxonomy | Prokaryotes (bacteria and archaea) | Taxon names, current status, changes over time. Includes new descriptions, subspecific splits, and those published outside the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. | |
| Integrated Taxonomic Information System | http://www.itis.gov/ | Taxonomy | All life | Taxon names, current status, source information. | |
| NCBI Taxonomy | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/taxonomy | Taxonomy | All life, some non-living things | Widely used in the Semantic Web community because of the taxonomy ontology. | |
| Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition | http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ | Taxonomy | Mammals | Reasonably authoritative for mammals, does not have full references online. | |
| Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera | http://www.cmar.csiro.au/datacentre/irmng/ | Names (taxonomy?) | All life? | Big dataset, should be pretty clean, should be pretty independent of other sources, maybe. | Available on GBIF as DwC-A. |
| IUCN Red List | http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/link/507358c3-ac245141 | Names (taxonomy?) | Eukaryotes? | Widely used outside of biology (in law, etc.) | |
| AmphibiaWeb | http://amphibiaweb.org/ | Taxonomy | Amphibians | Has lists of families and lists of species available for direct download. | |
| AntWeb | http://www.antweb.org/ | Taxonomy | Ants | List of species | |
| Hymenoptera Online | http://hol.osu.edu/ | Taxonomy | Hymenoptera | Incorporates data from AntWeb; in turn incorporated by ITIS, which is incorporated by CoL. | |
| World Register of Marine Species | http://www.marinespecies.org/ | Taxonomy? | Marine species | Available on EOL. Supported by dwca-hunter, which downloads it from EOL. | |
| Catalogue of Life | http://www.catalogueoflife.org/ | Taxonomy? | All life? | Downloads are Windows only, but consist largely of MySQL dumps, so it should be possible to get them working whenever. Annual downloads available for 2000 and 2002-2011. Available on EOL. |