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Agricultural Research Service - GRIN Taxonomy
Provides the structure and nomenclature for the accessions of the National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS). Many plants are included in GRIN taxonomy, especially economic plants.
A dynamic, searchable database that stores information on the scientific names of seaweeds (including seagrasses), particularly taxonomic and distributional details.
Amphibian Species of the World
An online catalogue at the American Museum of Natural History.
An online system that allows free access to information on amphibian biology and conservation.
Animal Diversity Web (University of Michigan Museum of Zoology)
A collection of pictures and information about animals.
Information on robber flies.
Aims to provide access to a wide range of information about bryozoans, and encourage others with resources to make them widely available.
Includes over 3000 entries giving an exhaustive nomenclatural synopsis of all carnivorous plants.
Catalogue Of New World Grasses (Poaceae)
An on-going project to database and link all nomenclature, types, synonymy, current taxonomy, and distribution for grasses occurring from Alaska and Greenland to Tierra del Fuego.
Caterpillar Hostplants Database
Offers a central facility to pool and permanently record rearing data of all Lepidoptera groups from anywhere in the world, providing a reference facility available worldwide through the Web.
Intended to show a synopsis of Chilean insects. Not a thorough classification, but it attempts to promote the interest and knowledge of this country's fauna.
Chironomidae and Water Beetles of Florida
Current information on the taxonomy and distribution of these groups of insects in Florida and elsewhere,
Classification of Flowering Plants (Uppsala University)
An ordinal classification for the families of flowering plants.
For entomologists who work on Coleoptera/beetles, and others who are interested in insects, beetle collecting, wildlife and nature...
Detailed information about the largest and most diversified group of crustaceans.
DERMBASE - Names of Dermateaceae
Contains information about the nomenclature and taxonomy of the discomycete family Dermateaceae (Ascomycotina, Leotiales). Currently some 5000 names are included.
Intents to make available data of fungi including detailed illustrations, to reduce the necessity to loan type material, to help with determinations, and to present doubtful or probably new species to an audience of mycologists.
Clicking the link above will get you to several directories of taxonomists, similar to ETI's World Taxonomist Database initiative. Contrary to the globally-focused WTD, these directories serve specific groups of specialists.
E-Taxonomy
An electronic newsletter about taxonomy and nomenclature, maintained by Matti Masing. E-mail contributions on acute matters of taxonomy and biological nomenclature can be sent to sicista@hot.ee.
A site on earwig biology.
Ecological Database of the World's Insect Pathogens (EDWIP)
Provides information on fungi, viruses, protozoa, mollicutes, nematodes, and bacteria (other than Bacillus thuringiensis) that are infectious in insects, mites, and related arthropods.
Electronic Microfossil Image Database System (EMIDAS)
Offers access to digital images of several microfossil groups such as coccolithophores and planktic foraminifera.
Intended to provide information on the classification of all living reptiles by listing all species and their pertinent higher taxa. The database therefore covers all living snakes, lizards, amphisbaenians and crocodiles.
European Register of Marine Species
A register of marine species in Europe, linked with a bibliography of identification guides, register of taxonomic experts and locations of collections of reference specimens, and an Information Pack on European marine biodiversity.
A global information system with all you ever wanted to know about fishes. FishBase is a relational database with fish information to cater to different professionals such as research scientists, fisheries managers, zoologists and many more.
A near-complete listing of the diversity of life through time, compiled at the level of the family.
Hawaiian Arthropod Checklist Database (Bishop Museum)
Searchable Hawaiian arthropod checklist database.
A compilation of publications concerning taxonomy, nomenclature, and geographic distribution of extant hexacorallians.
Index Nominum Genericorum (Plantarum)
Brings all generic names of plants together in a single list to reveal homonymy between groups and includes bibliographic citations and information about the typification and nomenclatural status of generic names.
Index to Organism Names (BIOSIS)
Can be used to identify the taxonomic group to which a named organism belongs and to link to further information from Zoological Record or other collaborating organisation. The index currently covers animals, algae , bacteria, fungi and mosses.
A collection of index files that list all names of virus families, genera and species found.
Indices Nominum Supragenericorum Plantarum Vascularium
Captures all valid and legitimate extant vascular plants names, as defined by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, proposed above the rank of genus.
International Legume Database & Information Service (ILDIS)
An international project which aims to document and catalogue the world's legume species diversity in a readily accessible form.
The International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
A database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants. Its goal is to eliminate the need for repeated reference to primary sources for basic bibliographic information about plant names.
International Working Group on Taxonomic Databases
Aims to provide an international forum for biological data projects, to develop and promote the use of standards, and to facilitate data exchange.
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
An online, scientifically credible, list of biological names focusing on the biota of North America.
Japanese Ants Color Image Database
A database relating to Japanese ant classification. It uses a state-of-the-art search system using highly resolved color images by a PhotoCD in order to enable precise and rapid species identification by users who are completely unfamiliar with ant species.
With standing in nomenclature.
A rule-based model for knowledge integrity testing among dispersed autonomous heterogeneous taxonomic databases.
A database of mammalian taxonomy.
MCZ Entomology - Primary Type Specimen Database
Online database containing records for primary types in the entomology collections of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ).
Opisthobranchs from the Mediterranean Sea. This site also contains information about Opisthobranchia and Heterobranchia from other geographical areas.
Missouri Botanical Garden - W3 TROPICOS
The TROPICOS database is the largest single database of non-genetic natural history collections and associated taxonomic literature in the world.
Natural History Museum - Taxonomy and Systematics
With all our scientific progress, are taxonomy and systematics still relevant today? And what other ways are there of examining wildlife? Explore the Museum's extensive resources to discover the answers.
Contains the names of all organisms that are represented in the genetic databases with at least one nucleotide or protein sequence.
NeMys - Generic Taxonomical Database System
A database system developed to store as many as possible types of biological information on mainly marine taxa in a fully digital way.
An international cooperative effort to make available systematic and geographic data on neotropical freshwater fish specimens deposited in natural history collections in the New World and Europe.
A number of preliminary check-lists of marine (and maritime) organisms within the MIOS (Marine Invertebrates of Scandinavia) area, which includes particularily the Baltic Sea, the North Sea and the Norwegian Sea.
Orthoptera Species File Online
Contains full taxonomic and synonymic information on all taxa of Orthoptera sensu lato (over 23.000 species), as well as nearly 10.000 images and hundreds of sound recordings.
Everything about the Phoronida (phoronids).
Site with a large amount of information on all aspects of seaweeds and marine algal biology, including AlgaeBase, which has information on the names, taxonomy and distribution of seaweeds belonging to the Cyanophycota, Rhodophycota, Phaeophycota and Chlorophycota.
The Subterranean Amphipod Database
Presents a database of gammaridean amphipod families represented in subterranean habitats.
A collection of over 1380 World Wide Web pages containing information about the diversity of life. Each page contains information about one group of organisms; pages are linked one to another in the form of the evolutionary tree of organisms, with the pages branching off from a group's page being about subgroups.
A relational database of phylogenetic information. TreeBASE stores phylogenetic trees and the data matrices used to generate them from published research papers.
Maps of all of the known localities for most freshwater turtles and tortoises in the world.
Up-to-date information on Brachiopoda (references, systematics, diagnoses...) and on its specialists.