Biology: Species Information

A collaborative effort of natural history museums, botanical gardens, and research institutions to create a biodiversity database on the Web. Scientific names, geographic distribution, and images are provided for many species.

Taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world.

An internationally refereed database of fishes with entries for over 33,000 species. Searchable by scientific name, common name, or by family.

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A consortium of 12 major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions organized to digitize, serve, and preserve the legacy literature of biodiversity. BHL also serves as the foundational literature component of the Encyclopedia of Life ().

A curated classification and nomenclature for all of the organisms in the public sequence databases.

The Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) is a collaborative effort of biologists and nature enthusiasts from around the world. It provides information about biodiversity, the characteristics of different groups of organisms, and their evolutionary history (phylogeny).

Free and Open Access to Biodiversity Data. Includes over 1.6 million confirmed species.

Sources for species survey data in the Pacific created by members of the Pacific Biodiversity Information Forum in collaboration with the UH Libraries.