Taxonomic Tools

Taxonomic Tools

Biodiversity Heritage Library – Biodiversity literature openly available to the world
BOLD SYSTEMS – The Barcode of Life Data Systems with DNA barcode library, taxonomy, identification, workbench, and other resources
Catalogue of Life – The online database of the world's known species of animals, plants, fungi and micro-organisms
DISCOVER LIFE - Tools to study natural history and track the impact of climate change, invasive species, and other large-scale ecological factors
Encyclopedia of Life – Global access to knowledge about life on Earth
ESABII – Taxonomy Training Manuals and species identification sheets for East and South East Asia
Global Biodiversity Information Facility – Global species occurrences and specimen collections
Tropicos – Misouri Botanical Garden’s databases
NCBI Taxonomy Browser – Phylogenetic and taxonomic knowledge from a variety of sources, including the published literature, web-based databases, and the advice of sequence submitters to and outside taxonomy experts
Online Taxonomic Key Application – Royal BC Museum, Canada
Artportalen.se - Swedish Species Gateway
ID guides for marine organisms – The marine life information network
Lucid identification key tools
EDIT platform for cybertaxonomy
WORMS – The world register of marine species

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