Flora and Fauna
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- ARKive : Images of Life on Earth
- An extensive collection of thousands of videos, images and fact-files illustrating the world's species gathered into one centralised digital library.
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- BioImages - Virtual Fieldguide for UK Biodiversity
- Large selection of pictures of organisms, mostly British in origin. Images are an aid to identification, showing different stages, states and views of the organisms. Search the database or follow a taxonomic tree.
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- BioLib
- Taxonomic tree of plants and animals with a photo gallery and some checklists for the Czech Republic and Slovakia. In Czech and English.
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- Census of Marine Life
- A global network of researchers engaged in a ten-year initiative to assess and explain the past, present, and future diversity, distribution, and abundance of marine life in the oceans.
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- Classification of Living Things
- An introduction to the naming and relationships of living things. Classification involves much human judgement and is in a constant state of flux as new information is discovered.
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- Discover Life
- Information about taxonomy, natural history, distribution, abundance, and ecology of many species worldwide. Includes tools to identify, map, and database species.
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- HabitasOnline
- Information on the plants, animals, and fossils of Ireland. Includes an encyclopedia of marine life of the UK. From the Ulster Museum Sciences Division.
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- Lepidoptera and Other Life Forms
- Taxonomic tree of mammals, insects, birds, and plants. Includes common and scientific names, publication details, references, links, general range maps, and some images. Most complete for Lepidoptera.
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- Mikko's Phylogeny Archive
- A compilation of various phylogenetic trees representing different views of taxonomy. Includes links to other taxonomic websites.
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Searchable and browsable taxonomy tree of organisms for which there are publicly available gene sequences.
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- Nature of New England
- Photos, facts, and links to information about birds, butterflies, mammals, and wildflowers of this region.
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- World Register of Marine Species
- WoRMS aims to provide an authoritative and comprehensive list of names of marine organisms, including information on synonymy.
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- World's Boreal Forests: Animal and Plant Species
- Fact sheets and photos for mammals, birds, trees and other plants of boreal regions.
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- iNaturalist
- Site and community for reporting personal observations of any plant or animal species in the world.
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- iSpecies
- A species search engine from Rod Page of Glasgow University. Search on either the common or Latin name of a species. Results are generated by querying other data sources.
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- Digital Morphology
- A dynamic archive of information on digital morphology and high-resolution X-ray computed tomography of biological specimens. Includes slice-by-slice animations, animated volumetric and 3D surface renderings, introduction, references, links, and archival museum data for each specimen.