Bookmarks for taxonomy projects, concentrating on butterflies, Lepidoptera & insects, and other useful/similar/database projects

ALL Species Foundation (now apparently defunct)
American Museum of Natural History (AMNH; see if you can find the taxonomic databases!)

ASC (Association of Systematics Collections -- now apparently defunct; see NSC Alliance)
BioCASE (Biological Collection Access Service for Europe, expands on idea of ENHSIN)
BioCISE (predecessor of BioCASE)
Biodiversity and Biological Collections ("devoted to information of interest to systematists..")
Butterfly Net International (Andy Brower; now defunct after his move to Louisiana)
Catalogue of Life (all living organisms)
CETAF (Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities)
CHM-CBD (Clearing-House Mechanism of the Convention on Biological Diversity)
CONABIO (Complete information on Mexican biodiversity)
DIVERSITAS ("An Integrated Programme of Biodiversity Science" [including systematics]);
  sponsored by ICSU, SCOPE, IUBS, IUMS & UNESCO-MAB)
EDIS (Entomological Data Information System)
GART (Globales Artregister Tagfalter; part of EDIS; for Papilionidae see "Active databases" below)
ENBI (European Network for Biodiversity Information -- "aims to add European value to GBIF")
ENHSIN (European Natural History Specimen Information Network)
Entrez Taxonomy Linkout (from NCBI)
EuroCat ("Species 2000 Europa"; Eurocat acronym now probably defunct due to confusion)
EuroMed (Plant database for Mediterranean)
Fauna Europaea (database of names & distributions of all multicellular animals in Europe)
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility) *
GloBIS-D / GART (Global Butterfly Information Service - Deutschland)
GTI (Global Taxonomy Initiative, now hosted under the Convention on Biological Diversity)
INBio (Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Costa Rica -- extensive specimen databases + taxonomy)
iSpecies (Rod Page's internet taxonomy collator)
MorphBank (Data bank for morphological images)
MSEF (Major Systematic Entomology Facilities, somewhat outdated by more recent projects)
The Natural History Museum, London (BMNH, Research and online collections data)
NSC Alliance (National Systematics Collections Alliance, USA)
Smithsonian (NMNH, Collections databases; older links and some searches do not work)
Species 2000 (uses the Species Analyst system below and returns XML output)
Species Analyst (a system for extracting specimen data from multiple, incompatible databases)
TDWG (International Working Group on Taxonomic Databases)
Tree of Life *
TreeBase (database for phylogeny estimates and phylogenetic data matrices)
VIADOCS Project (Card Index digitizing, London NHM + Essex University)
WDCM (World Data Centre for Microorganisms, Japan)
WSL (World Species List; index of many taxonomy-related projects, apparently defunct)
Zootaxa (Online journal for zoological taxonomy)

* attractive websites

Taxonomic bibliographies -- see additional page (in progress)

Active taxon-oriented databases

ABRI (African Butterfly Research Institute; apparently defunct)
AlgaeBase (Algae, >120,000 species in database, plus photos etc.) *
AmphibiaWeb (Amphibian biology and conservation site)
Amphibian Species of the World (AMNH)
Antbase (+ other social insects, AMNH, around 11,000 spp., 30,000 names, 360 genera) *
Ants of Costa Rica (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)
Association for Tropical Lepidoptera
Butterflies and moths of Arizona & N Mexico (Bruce Walsh)
Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of the French Antilles
Butterflies and moths of North America *
BUTMOTH (Butterflies and Moths of the World: Generic Names; ~31,000 genus group names)
coleoptera.org
HOSTS (a database of the world's lepidopteran hostplants, NHM London)
Caterpillars.  Especially Australian ones
Cockayne Database (British Butterflies and their aberrations)
Diptera site (BDWD, BioSystematic Database of World Diptera; ~300,000 names)
FishBase *
International Lepidoptera Survey (scientific & common names, mainly North America)
ILDIS and LegumeWeb (online catalogue of Legume names)
ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System)
Jamides (Lycaenidae taxonomic information, Japanese site in English)
Lepidoptera and other life forms (Markku Savela; many Lepidoptera names mainly from D'Abrera)
LepIndex (world list of names for Lepidoptera - card index, names usually classified to genus only) *
LBSN) (List of bacterial names with standing in nomenclature
Monteverde Natural History, Costa Rica (William A. Haber; includes list of Ithomiini)
Orthoptera Species File (David Eades, Dan Otte, Piotr Nasrecki; info on >25,000 species, and >39,000 names) *
Papilionidae (GloBIS/GART species checklist
ScaleNet (scale insects of the world)
Strickland Museum of Entomology (Arthropods of Alberta)
Syrph the Net (Syrphidae - impressive database of all European syrphids, but you must send off for CD; website needs updating)
TaiBNET (Taiwan Biodiversity National Information Network)
Tropicos (Tropical plant systematics database)
Wahlberg, Niklas (Taxonomy & phylogeny of Nymphalidae)
World spider Catalog (AMNH: 39,725 spp. in 3677 genera) *

* my favourites (based on: cool interface, speed, future potential, coverage and organization, utility and completeness, ...oh, and bias.)

International Codes of Nomenclature

International Code of Botanical Nomenclature
ICZN (International Commission for Zoological Nomenclature)
Bacterial Nomenclature Up-to-date

Bookmarks for genetics and genomics

Animal genome sizes (including Lepidoptera)
BAC libraries (NSF Lepidoptera award announcement, Heliconius, Manduca, Heliothis)
EMBL (Nucleotide/genome sequence databases, etc. Mirrors GENBANK)
FlyBase (Drosophila gene data + taxonomy, including species list)
Heliothis genome sequence (Genoptera; never released to public, now apparently defunct)
International Lepidopteran Genome Project (work continues -- see GENBANK -- but website not updated since 2002)
NCBI (National Center for Biological Information, includes GENBANK and Taxonomy Browser)

Funding

"What on Earth?" House of Lords 2002 recommend to increase funding for taxonomy
EC Framework 7
GBIF (ECAT and DIGIT programmes)
NSF (Revisionary Syntheses in Systematics (REVSYS)) *
PEET (NSF's Partnership for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy) *

* The USA is currently the best place to get a job in taxonomy

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Last updated: 20 Jan 2007