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| Database: ABRS | Description: Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS) aims to provide, through strategic partnerships, the underlying taxonomic knowledge necessary for the conservation and sustainable use of Australia's biodiversity. The Australian Biodiversity Information Facility (ABIF) is ABRS' web-based source of authoritative information on Australia's biodiversity, including the Australian Faunal Directory (c. 39,000 spp.); the Cenus of Australian Vertebrate Animals; What's its Name? (plant name changes); the first of the published Flora of Australia series; algae and lichen lists; fungal posters; keys, and links to other useful data. Mollusca: Pulmonata (snails and slugs - c. 1,000 spp.) is one of many datasets in the Australian Faunal Directory, including GSDs for endemic groups and regional information for other species not yet covered globally. It was compiled by B.J. Smith, S. Reid and W. Ponder (Dec. 2002). |
| Institution: | |
| Address: P.O. Box 787 Canberra ACT 2601, Australia, | |
| Email: alice.wells@ea.gov.au | |
| URL: | ABRS |
| Database: AlgaeBase | Description: Seaweeds are marine algae, previously considered to be 'simple plants' but now known to belong to 3 distinct groups, only one of which (the Chlorophycota) is related to plants. AlgaeBase contains taxonomic data on around 9000 species as well as 53 species of seagrasses. Additional data such as pictures, uses of seaweeds, and industrial information are available at the Seaweed site. |
| Institution: Department of Botany Martin Ryan Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway | |
| Address: University Road, Galway, Ireland, | |
| Email: mike.guiry@seaweed.ie | |
| URL: | AlgaeBase |
| Database: BIOS | Description: Bacteriology Insight Orienting System (BIOS) contains data on the world's Bacteria, Archae and Cyanobacteria (or Cyanophyta). This CD only includes data on the Bacteria and Archae (about 8500 species, over 8000 names). Besides taxonomic and strain data, BIOS contains links to further information in many other data sources. Data in BIOS has been developed by a team based at the National Institute for Environmental Studies (Japan). Jean Euzeby at the Ecole Nationale Veterinaire de Toulouse (France), and the Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH (Germany). |
| Institution: National Institute for Environmental Studies | |
| Address: 16-2 Onogawa Tsukuba, 305-8506, Japan, | |
| Email: J.Shimura@sp2000.org | |
| URL: | BIOS |
| Database: Catalogue of Life | Description: ITIS and Species 2000 are partners in the Catalogue of Life (CoL). This electronic catalogue or index will be a baseline species list for use in inventorying projects and as a comprehensive worldwide catalogue for checking the status, classification and names of species. The partners have recently made arrangements for the Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life to play a significant role as the species index in the portal of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). |
| Institution: Species 2000 Secretariat, Centre for Plant Diversity | |
| Address: School of Plant Sciences, The University of Reading, Reading, , RG6 6AS, UK | |
| Email: sp2000@sp2000.org | |
| URL: | Catalogue of Life |
| Database: CephBase | Description: CephBase provides life history, distribution, catch and taxonomic data on all living species of cephalopods (octopus, squid, cuttlefish and nautilus). CephBase is created and maintained by James B. Wood, National Resource Center for Cephalopods (NRCC), Galveston, Texas, USA, and Catriona L. Day, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. Principal investigators are Phillip G. Lee, NRCC; Ron K. O'Dor, Dalhousie University, and Michael Vecchione, National Marine Fisheries Service Systematics LAb. CephBase is supported by a grant from the National Oceanographic Partnership Program (http://www.nopp.org). |
| Institution: Dalhousie University | |
| Address: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3H 1V9 | |
| Email: ceph@is.dal.ca | |
| URL: | CephBase |
| Database: CIPA | Description: The CIPA database includes information on the taxonomy, nomenclature, bibliography, epidemiology, geographic distribution and ecology of 418 neotropical species of sandflies (Insecta-Diptera-Psychodidae-Phlebotominae). These blood-sucking insects are important from the medical and veterinary point of view as vectors in the transmission of various illnesses, e.g. leishmaniasis, bartonellosis, arboviruses. The database and an interactive system are parts of an international project, Computer Aided Identification of Phlebotomine sandflies of the Americas, involving a scientific network with experts from 9 countries. CIPA was supported by the Program for Science and Technology Cooperation, Office of the Science Advisor, USA; by the Agency for International Development, and by the Scientific and Technical Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France. |
| Institution: Laboratoire Informatique & Systématique Université Pierre et Marie Curie de l'Université | |
| Address: 12 rue Cuvier, Paris, France, 75005 | |
| Email: cipamaster@lis.snv.jussieu.fr | |
| URL: | CIPA |
| Database: FishBase | Description: FishBase was developed at the WorldFish Center in the Philippines, in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and many other partners, and with support from the European Commission. It has diverse information on all 28,500 species of fish, including descriptive, physiological and conservation data, and contains links to information in other databases. |
| Institution: Institute of Marine Research | |
| Address: Duesternbrooker Weg 20, Kiel, Germany, 24105 | |
| Email: rfroese@ifm-geomar.de | |
| URL: | FishBase |
| Database: Hexacorallians of the World | Description: Hexacorallians of the World database provides information on the taxa, literature, type specimens, distribution maps, and images of extant hexacorallians: members of the cnidarian orders Actiniaria, Corallimorpharia, Ptychodactiaria, and Zoanthidea (sea anemones in the loose sense), Ceriantharia (tube anemones), and Scleractinia (hard or stony corals). Only order Actiniaria (with 738 species) is included on this CD. The database is being created as part of the Census of Marine Life (www.coml.org). |
| Institution: Division of Biological Sciences, University of Kansas | |
| Address: Sunnyside Drive 1200, Haworth Hall, Lawrence, KS, USA, 66045 | |
| Email: fautin@ukans.edu | |
| URL: | Hexacorallians of the World |
| Database: ICTVdB | Description: The International Committee on the Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) is the 'international court' of experts that rules on names and relationships of viruses from the level of order down to species. The universal system of virus taxonomy tracks c. 1,500 virus species, but virologists in different fields keep records on c. 30,000 virus strains and isolates. The classification is based on virion and biological properties. ICTVdB records and describes all viruses of animals, plants, bacteria, fungi, and Archae down to the level of strains and isolates. The classification is based on virion and biological properties. Orthographic peculiarities in virus nomenclature are: names of orders, families, subfamilies, and genera are always italicised and the first letter is capitalized. Other words are not capitalized unless they are proper nouns, or parts thereof. Tentative species names and names of subspecies, serotypes, strains and isolates are not italicised. Hierarchies higher than order are not used in virus taxonomy. For practical reasons, in this CD, the level of Kingdom has been used to separate viruses. The level Phylum/Division separates DNA, RNA, and reverse-transcribing viruses, the level Class separates double-stranded DNA or RNA viruses from single-stranded DNA or RNA viruses. ICTVdB is supported by Columbia University and grants from the US National Science Foundation and the National Library of Medicine with the American Type Culture Collection. URL: (Home Site) http://phene.cpmc.columbia.edu/ (USA) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ICTVdb (UK) http://www.ictvdb.iacr.ac.uk (China) http://ictvdb.mirror.ac.cn |
| Institution: Colombia Earth Institute, Columbia University of New York, Biosphere 2 Center | |
| Address: 32540 S. Biosphere Road P.O. Box 689 Oracle, AZ, USA, 85623 | |
| Email: buchen@bio2.columbia.edu | |
| URL: | ICTVdB |
| Database: ILDIS | Description: The International Legume Database & Information Service (ILDIS) aims to document and catalogue the world’s legume species diversity. Research groups in many countries are cooperating to pool information in the ILDIS World Database of Legumes, which provides an information service through publications, electronic access and enquiry services. The database contains taxonomic, distribution, habit and other data for about 15,500 species (76% of estimate legume diversity), and also provides direct species links to information in other databases. Bisby F.A., Zarucchi J.L., Schrire B.L., Roskov Y.R. and White R.J. (eds.) |
| Institution: International Legume Database and Information Service (ILDIS), Centre for Plant Diversity and Systematics, | |
| Address: School of Plant Sciences, The University of Reading, Reading, , RG6 6AS, UK | |
| Email: ildis@ildis.org | |
| URL: | ILDIS |
| Database: IOPI | Description: The International Organization for Plant Information (IOPI) aims to produce a database of all vascular plant species and other products such as a World Flora. The checklist currently holds over 200,000 names and implements the innovative 'potential taxon' concepts. Data for the cycads and 4 flowering plant families are included in this CD. Magnoliaceae data are provided by the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, one of the founding members of IOPI. Cycad data come from the World List of Cycads, maintained by Ken Hill and Dennis Stevenson (NY). |
| Institution: IOPI Global Plant Checklist | |
| Address: Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney, Mrs. Macquaries Road, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia, | |
| Email: iopi@rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au | |
| URL: | IOPI |
| Database: ITIS | Description: Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) places priority on North American species, but also includes global and New World treatments for selected groups of biota. ITIS provides this cd with more than 280,000 scientific and common names. URL: (US) http://www.itis.usda.gov (Canada) http://www.cbif.gc.ca/pls/itisca/pls/itisca/taxaget (Mexico) http://siit.conabio.gob.mx |
| Institution: Integrated Taxonomic Information System | |
| Address: c/o Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37012, NMNH, Room CE-120, MRC-0180, Washington, DC, U.S.A., 20013-7012 | |
| Email: itiswebmaster@www.itis.usda.gov | |
| URL: | ITIS |
| Database: MOST | Description: The World Checklist of Mosses (W3MOST) provides current information on bryophyte species from the TROPICOS MOST database compiled by the Index of Mosses project, at the Missouri Botanical Garden. This database extraction, unlike the Index of Mosses, includes taxonomic opinions of numerous authors. All the known species of mosses are included. |
| Institution: Missouri Botanical Garden | |
| Address: P.O. Box 299, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, 63166-0299 | |
| Email: bob.magill@mobot.org | |
| URL: | MOST |
| Database: Orthoptera Species File | Description: The Orthoptera Species File is a taxonomic database of the world's Orthoptera (grasshoppers, locusts, katydids, crickets), both living and fossil. It has full synonymic and taxonomic information for 22,398 valid species, 37,822 taxonomic names, 121,904 citations to 15,855 references, 7,989 images and 149 sound recordings. Daniel Otte first developed the database. Collaboration with Piotr Naskrecki led to version 1 of OSF Online. David Eades developed the current version with help from authorized members of the Orthopterists' Society, who edit the database online. |
| Institution: Illinois Natural History Survey and The Orthopterist Society | |
| Address: 607 East Peabody Drive, Champaign , Illinois, USA, 61820-6970 | |
| Email: d.eades@regapts.com | |
| URL: | Orthoptera Species File |
| Database: Phyllachorales | Description: Phyllachorales - tropical tar-spot fungi |
| Institution: | |
| Address: CABI Bioscience, Bakeham Lane, Egham, Surrey, UK, | |
| Email: p.cannon@cabi.org | |
| URL: | Phyllachorales |
| Database: Rhytismatales | Description: Rhytismatales - Fungi on conifers (esp.) |
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| Address: CABI Bioscience, Bakeham Lane, Egham, Surrey, UK, | |
| Email: d.minter@cabi.org | |
| URL: | Rhytismatales |
| Database: Scarabaeidae | Description: The World Scarabaeidae Database is currently only accessible through this checklist. It is included in this CD by the kind permission of Paul Schoolmeesters (schoolp@skynet.be). The Scarabids are a large family of beetles, believed to include 20,000 species. This database is well on the way to completion, with taxonomic data for 17,000 species. |
| Institution: | |
| Address: Langeveldstraat 23, B-3020 Herent, Belgium, | |
| Email: schoolp@skynet.be | |
| URL: | Scarabaeidae |
| Database: Species Fungorum | Description: Fungi; Protozoan fungi; Chromistan fungi |
| Institution: | |
| Address: CABI Bioscience, Bakeham Lane, Egham, Surrey, UK, | |
| Email: p.cannon@cabi.org | |
| URL: | Species Fungorum |
| Database: Trichomycetes | Description: Trichomycetes - Fungi Associated with Arthropods |
| Institution: University of Kansas | |
| Address: Lawrence, KS, USA, | |
| Email: licht@eagle.cc.ukans.edu | |
| URL: | Trichomycetes |
| Database: URMO | Description: The UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) is already a large and gradually growing dataset that is being built up and maintained by Jacob van der Land at the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden, the Netherlands. Access to completed data sets is or will be provided by the Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification (ETI). The register contains a number of 'global species databases' for exclusively, marine taxa, and 25 of these are included in this CD - nearly 7500 species. |
| Institution: National Museum of Natural History - Naturalis | |
| Address: P.O.Box 9517 Leiden, the Netherlands, 23000 RA | |
| Email: land@naturalis.nnm.nl | |
| URL: | URMO |
| Database: World Biodiversity Database | Description: The World Biodiversity Database contains taxonomic information (hierarchies), species names, synonyms, descriptions, illustrations and literature references when available. A direct link to CMBI provides genetic information on protein sequence and nucleic sequence for each taxon. In the future the WBD will be extended with online identification keys and an interactive geographic information system. The Euphausiid database, of which abstracted information is included on this CD, was compiled by E. Brinton, M.D. Ohman, A.W. Townsend, M.D. Knight, and A.L. Bridgeman. |
| Institution: Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification (ETI) | |
| Address: Mauritskade 61, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1092 AD | |
| Email: webmaster@eti.uva.nl | |
| URL: | World Biodiversity Database |
| Database: Xylariaceae | Description: Xylariaceae - Fungi associated with dead wood |
| Institution: Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University | |
| Address: P.O. Box 646430, Pullman, WA, USA, | |
| Email: rogers@wsu.edu | |
| URL: | Xylariaceae |
| Database: Zygomycetes | Description: Zygomycetes |
| Institution: | |
| Address: CABI Bioscience, Bakeham Lane, Egham, Surrey, UK, | |
| Email: p.cannon@cabi.org | |
| URL: | Zygomycetes |
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