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Names registered at Index Fungorum can be published immediately through the Index Fungorum e-Publication facility — an authorized login is required for this.\n\nSpecies Fungorum is currently an RBG Kew coordinated initiative to compile a global checklist of the fungi. You may search systematically defined and taxonomically complete datasets - global species databases - or the entire Species Fungorum. Species Fungorum contributes the fungal component to the Species 2000 project and, in partnership with ITIS, to the Catalogue of Life (currently used in the GBIF and EoL portal); for more information regarding these global initiative visit their websites. Please contact Paul Kirk if you you would like to contribute to Species Fungorum.","homeURL":"http://www.speciesfungorum.org","isOutlinkReady":true,"curation":"Curated","hasTaxonData":true,"recordCount":516042,"updatedAt":"2023-03-08"},{"id":6,"title":"USDA National Plant Germplasm System","titleShort":"GRIN Plant Taxonomy","releaseDate":"2026-02-19","description":"The USDA National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS), often referred to through its associated database, the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), is a vital resource for preserving and providing access to plant genetic diversity.\n\nThe Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) provides information about the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA national collections of animal, microbial, and plant genetic resources (germplasm) important for food and agricultural production. GRIN documents these collections through informational pages, searchable databases, and links to USDA-ARS projects that curate the collections. ","homeURL":"https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxon/abouttaxonomy","isOutlinkReady":true,"curation":"Curated","hasTaxonData":true,"recordCount":141875,"updatedAt":"2026-02-19"},{"id":7,"title":"Union 4","titleShort":"Union 4","description":"This classification seeks to include all taxa and to access all names of clades including variant forms of names. It will include content developed as IRMNG, and a framework developed as CU*STAR for microscope.mbl.edu that was modified in eutree.lifedesks.org. 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It\u0026#39;s the taxonomic backbone that allows GBIF to integrate name based information from different resources, no matter if these are occurrence datasets, species pages, names from nomenclators or external sources like EOL, Genbank or IUCN. This backbone allows taxonomic search, browse and reporting operations across all those resources in a consistent way and to provide means to crosswalk names from one source to another.\", \"It is updated regulary through an automated process in which the Catalogue of Life acts as a starting point also providing the complete higher classification above families. Additional scientific names only found in other authoritative nomenclatural and taxonomic datasets are then merged into the tree, thus extending the original catalogue and broadening the backbones name coverage.          The GBIF Backbone taxonomy also includes identifiers for Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs) drawn from the barcoding resources iBOL and UNITE.\", \"International Barcode of Life project (iBOL), Barcode Index Numbers (BINs).  BINs are connected to a taxon name and its classification by taking into account all names applied to the BIN and picking names with at least 80% consensus. If there is no consensus of name at the species level, the selection process is repeated moving up the major Linnaean ranks until consensus is achieved.\", \"UNITE - Unified system for the DNA based fungal species, Species Hypotheses (SHs).  SHs are connected to a taxon name and its classification based on the determination of the RefS (reference sequence) if present or the RepS (representative sequence). In the latter case, if there is no match in the UNITE taxonomy, the lowest rank with 100% consensus within the SH will be used.\", \"The GBIF Backbone Taxonomy is available for download at https://hosted-datasets.gbif.org/datasets/backbone/ in different formats together with an archive of all previous versions.\", \"The following 105 sources have been used to assemble the GBIF backbone with number of names given in brackets:\\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eCatalogue of Life Checklist - 4766428 names\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eInternational Barcode of Life project (iBOL) Barcode Index Numbers (BINs) - 635951 names\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eUNITE - Unified system for the DNA based fungal species linked to the classification - 611208 names\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe Paleobiology Database - 212054 names\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eWorld Register of Marine Species - 188857 names\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera - 183894 names\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP) - 131891 names\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eGBIF Backbone Taxonomy - 114350 names\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eTAXREF - 109374 names\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe Leipzig catalogue of vascular plants - 75380 names\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eZooBank - 73549 names\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eIntegrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) - 68377 names\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ePlazi.org taxonomic treatments database - 61346 names\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eGenome Taxonomy Database r207 - 60545 names\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eInternational Plant Names Index - 52329 names\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eFauna Europaea - 45077 names\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe National Checklist of Taiwan (Catalogue of Life in Taiwan, TaiCoL) - 36193 names\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eDyntaxa. 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Higher taxonomy is being added only in selected groups with important gaps. \nMeanwhile, the information from the global data sources of the Catalogue of Life Base Release remains unmodified.\n\nThis enhanced process is continuously evolving and undergoing quality control checks by COL editors and its community. \nDue to its programmatic nature as well as the taxonomic and nomenclatural differences among the data sources used, some issues may arise. \nWe therefore caution the user, and invite everyone to help log data issues in the [COL’s data GitHub repository](https://github.com/CatalogueOfLife/data/issues/new?template=xcol-content-feedback.md). \nWe will do our best to resolve these issues as soon as possible.","homeURL":"https://www.catalogueoflife.org/","isOutlinkReady":true,"curation":"AutoCurated","hasTaxonData":true,"recordCount":7908662,"updatedAt":"2026-02-13"},{"id":93,"title":"Passiflora vernacular names","titleShort":"Passiflora vernacular names","description":"Passiflora vernacular names","curation":"NotCurated","hasTaxonData":false,"recordCount":7,"updatedAt":"2012-02-09"},{"id":94,"title":"Inventory of Fish Species in the Wami River Basin","titleShort":"Inventory of Fish Species in the Wami Riv...","description":"Inventory of fish fauna for use in assessing the environmental flow of the Wami River Sub-Basin i.e. how much water is needed for human uses and sustaining ecological integrity of the river?","curation":"NotCurated","hasTaxonData":false,"recordCount":35,"updatedAt":"2012-02-09"},{"id":95,"title":"Pheasant Diversity and Conservation in the Mt. 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These include the studies on Chytrid fungus, sediments flush from the reservoir,agricultural pesticide residue and water quality changes. Thanks to the Captive breeding programs that the species is under control for reintroduction back to its original habitat. This description therefore intends to report the amphibians occurring in the Kihansi Gorge i.e. amphibians occurring in the Spray Wetlands, at the edges of the spray wetlands as well as those appearing in other areas of the gorge. 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Through Taiwan Biodiversity Information Facility (TaiBIF), the information can be shared and exchanged with other GBIF participants. Users can use keywords to link to other websites with relevant information. 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(2000) Checklist of Kiswahili names of the Birds of Tanzania, Wildlife Conservation Society of Tanzania. \nWe are privileged to have the opportunity to compile the checklist for Tanzania Biodiversity Information Facility (TanBIF) under COSTECH. 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Therefore, the related information of an endangered species should be recognized and its conservation effort be executed.\n\nIUCN estimates that there are 20,000 endangered species. The checklist of Taiwan (TaiBNET) lists 127 species as vulnerable (VU) or higher levels. The scientific name (including author and year), common names, synonyms, assessment level, and other information of these species are also included in the database. Taiwan, even the whole world, needs to actively promote the conservation work of these species. Through Taiwan Biodiversity Information Facility (TaiBIF), the information of Taiwan’s endangered species can be shared and exchanged with other GBIF participants. Users can use keywords to link to other websites with relevant information. 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La mayoria de los registros anteriores a 1995 están basados en el catálogo Bolton (1995), por lo que se recomienda su consulta para información más detallada.","curation":"NotCurated","hasTaxonData":true,"recordCount":4315,"updatedAt":"2012-02-09"},{"id":127,"title":"Flora of Gaoligong Mountains","titleShort":"Flora of Gaoligong Mountains","description":"The Book covers all the seed plants found in the Gaoligong Mountains, including 2 phyla, 210 families, 1086 genera and 4303 species and varieties. 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Reason is that, over the last decade years several projects have focused on this group (cf. above) and that a mass of specimen related data are available. Afrotropical is used here in the biogeographical sense, hence the region below of the Sahara dessert. 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All these efforts will result in the circulation and utilization of information in the areas of research, education and conservation.","curation":"NotCurated","hasTaxonData":false,"recordCount":8174,"updatedAt":"2012-02-09"},{"id":136,"title":"Dermaptera Species File","titleShort":"Dermaptera Species File","description":"This file contains taxon names and related nomenclatural information for the order Dermaptera originating from the Dermaptera Species File maintained by the Species File Group (http://software.speciesfile.org) at the University of Illinois, Illinois Natural History Survey.","curation":"NotCurated","hasTaxonData":true,"recordCount":2918,"updatedAt":"2012-02-09"},{"id":137,"title":"Mantodea Species File","titleShort":"Mantodea Species File","description":"This file contains taxon names and related nomenclatural information for the order Mantodea originating from the Mantodea Species File maintained by the Species File Group (http://software.speciesfile.org) at the University of Illinois, Illinois Natural History Survey.","curation":"NotCurated","hasTaxonData":true,"recordCount":3911,"updatedAt":"2012-02-09"},{"id":138,"title":"Birds of the World: Recommended English Names","titleShort":"Birds of the World: Recommended English N...","description":"This initiative provides a set of unique English-language names for the extant species of the birds of the world. 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VASCAN refers to a source for all name, classification and distribution information.\n\nAll data have been released to the public domain under a CC0 waiver and are available through Canadensys and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). 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Both of the Biodiversity Research Center and the Computing Center of Academia Sinica are in charge of the maintenance and the updating biodiversity related information and data.\n\nThrough the node, the background of participating GBIF, related documents, news, upcoming conferences, name list of Taiwanese taxonomists, catalog of life in Taiwan, specimen database, biodiversity related organization, team research projects, independent biological databases, natural heritage, and local publications etc. can be accessed. Among them, \"Name list of Taiwanese taxonomists\" and \"Catalog of Life of Taiwan\" are one promoting project sponsored by the National Science Council. So far, 236 local taxonomists have included their titles, telephones, e-mail addresses, and the taxa that they are expertised. In the future, we hope to include all of the ecologists or the applied scientists in agriculture, forestry, fishery, and animal husbandry in the name list.\n\nThe first phase of Catalog of Life in Taiwan will contain the following items of animals (including insects), plants, and fungi: species names, authors and year, suggested Chinese names, endemic in Taiwan or not, their classification hierarchy, the most authorized citation proving that particular species has occurred in Taiwan. Users can get the name list of one group of organisms through keywords search, species name searching, or image searching etc. Further information of each species can be obtained through the hyperlink to more than 18 well-known global databases or networks, such as Species2000 and ITIS etc. Right now, more than 30,000 species have been compiled, and we hope to collect more than 60,000 species by July 2004. Species checklist of the microorganisms will be included next year. We hope to get more funding and collaborators in the next phase to collect specimen or ecological photos (endemic species first), description (morphology, ecology and biology), geographical distribution, synonyms, literatures, as well as deposited specimen data for each species.\n\nThrough this node, the most authorized information of high biodiversity and endemism of Taiwan can be exchanged and shared with other GBIF participants. 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Le \nréférentiel TAXREF est consultable et téléchargeable sur le site internet de l’Inventaire \nNational du Patrimoine Naturel (INPN) coordonné par le MNHN. \nhttp://inpn.mnhn.fr/programme/referentiel-taxonomique-taxref\n \nLa version en cours est TAXREF v18.0 mise en ligne le 09 janvier 2025.\n\nEn téléchargeant TAXREF, j'accepte les conditions suivantes :\n(1) aucune copie du référentiel TAXREF ne sera faite et transmise à un tiers sans que celui-ci n'ait rempli le présent formulaire \n(2) le référentiel TAXREF, ou une de ses composantes telles que décrites dans le document de citation des sources, sera citée dans toute publication ou présentation qui l'utilisera \n(3) aucune partie du référentiel TAXREF ne sera mise à disposition en ligne sans autorisation préalable de l'UMS Patrimoine Naturel \n(4) en cas de découverte d'erreurs il est prié de bien vouloir en informer les éditeurs de façon à constamment accroitre la qualité du référentiel","homeURL":"https://inpn.mnhn.fr/programme/referentiel-taxonomique-taxref","curation":"Curated","hasTaxonData":true,"recordCount":708685,"updatedAt":"2025-04-02"},{"id":211,"title":"Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World","titleShort":"World Plants","releaseDate":"2026-02-02","description":"WorldFerns and WorldPlants are synonymic checklists of the vascular plants of the world (including ferns and lycophytes). The data set has been compiled – independently from other catalogues - over the last 40 years by starting from the basic data of the Kew Index and the Index Filicum. These names (initially over 1 million) have been subsequently cross-checked against local or regional floras, checklists, monographies and treatments. Large subsets of the database have been cross-checked by experts for certain groups. In the current status almost all names have been verified, and distribution data, newer checklists and/or floras are available for almost all countries and regions. Over the years, about 400,000 names have been added to the basic subset, leading to a total of 1,380,000 names for all families. Only a small subset (about 50,000 names) of mostly old, unverified and unassignable (“unplaced”) names have been deliberately omitted. Newly described taxa are added on a regular basis through data exchange with IPNI. Special attention is given to arranging the genera in correct phylogenetic sequence, by inclusion of the most important phylogenetic papers and monographies. The linear sequence of genera can be seen on the original website worldplants.de.\n\nAs of 2023, almost all countries and regions have recent checklists or floras of reasonable quality and completeness, and over 90 % of geographical distribution is probably known. Some remaining large gaps have been closed by the recent completion of checklists for Brazil and India. Remaining regions with some data deficiencies are parts of Malesia and Central Africa (the two Congos), and for some states of former Yugoslavia the distribution is not yet fully broken down.","curation":"NotCurated","hasTaxonData":false,"recordCount":1352066,"updatedAt":"2026-02-19"},{"id":212,"title":"Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World","titleShort":"World Ferns","releaseDate":"2026-02-02","description":"WorldFerns and WorldPlants are synonymic checklists of the vascular plants of the world (including ferns and lycophytes). The data set has been compiled – independently from other catalogues - over the last 40 years by starting from the basic data of the Kew Index and the Index Filicum. These names (initially over 1 million) have been subsequently cross-checked against local or regional floras, checklists, monographies and treatments. Large subsets of the database have been cross-checked by experts for certain groups. In the current status almost all names have been verified, and distribution data, newer checklists and/or floras are available for almost all countries and regions. Over the years, about 400,000 names have been added to the basic subset, leading to a total of 1,380,000 names for all families. Only a small subset (about 50,000 names) of mostly old, unverified and unassignable (“unplaced”) names have been deliberately omitted. Newly described taxa are added on a regular basis through data exchange with IPNI. Special attention is given to arranging the genera in correct phylogenetic sequence, by inclusion of the most important phylogenetic papers and monographies. The linear sequence of genera can be seen on the original website worldplants.de.\n\nAs of 2023, almost all countries and regions have recent checklists or floras of reasonable quality and completeness, and over 90 % of geographical distribution is probably known. Some remaining large gaps have been closed by the recent completion of checklists for Brazil and India. Remaining regions with some data deficiencies are parts of Malesia and Central Africa (the two Congos), and for some states of former Yugoslavia the distribution is not yet fully broken down.\n\nWorldFerns is proud to be the main data source for the new Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group initiative “PPG-II”, starting 2023. Results from this continuing revision of the WorldFerns catalogue by almost 300 experts worldwide are subsequently back-integrated in the existing dataset and almost immediately available.","curation":"NotCurated","hasTaxonData":false,"recordCount":69865,"updatedAt":"2026-02-19"},{"id":213,"title":"Flora e Funga do Brasil - Lista Oficial","titleShort":"Flora of Brazil","releaseDate":"2026-02-20","description":"In 2010, Brazil met Target 1 established by the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC-CDB), within the scope of the Convention on Biological Diversity, with the publication of the “Catálogo de Plantas e Fungos do Brasil” (see above “Publications/References”) and with the release of the first online version of the “Lista de Espécies da Flora do Brasil”. The “Lista do Brasil” project, as it became popularly known, ended in November 2015, with the publication of five articles and their respective databases (see above in “Access to Data” and “Publications/References”). In early 2016, the “Flora do Brasil 2020” project was launched, aiming to fulfill Target 1 established by the GSPC-CDB for 2020, with morphological descriptions, identification keys and illustrations for all species of plants, algae and fungi known to the country. By the end of 2020, monographs for all families of Bryophytes, Ferns and Lycophytes and Gymnosperms native to Brazil were made available in a broad and unrestricted way, as well as monographs for 90% of Angiosperm families. The results achieved were consequence of the collaborative work of more than 900 taxonomists, Brazilians and foreigners, in an online platform for the inclusion of data from the taxonomic groups of their specialty. In addition to preparing the monographs, these researchers were also responsible for including information on nomenclature (accepted names vs. synonyms) and geographic distribution (by states in Brazil, endemism and Phytogeographic Domains), in addition to including valuable data on life forms, substrate and vegetation types for the species worked. It is important to note that high resolution images of exsiccates, as well as images of species in nature and scientific illustrations are also associated with taxa to aid in their recognition. However, the monographs completed for Algae and for Fungi were not able to cover the real diversity of these groups in Brazil and this was a stimulus for the beginning of this new phase of the project, now called Flora e Funga do Brasil. This change aims to seek a more inclusive biological terminology for the Fungi Kingdom and a greater engagement of the mycological and lichenological community, both for the improvement of the list of species occurring in the country, and for the elaboration of monographs.","curation":"NotCurated","hasTaxonData":false,"recordCount":162774,"updatedAt":"2026-02-20"},{"id":214,"title":"Catálogo Taxonômico da Fauna do Brasil","titleShort":"Fauna of Brazil","releaseDate":"2026-02-20","description":"A quick analysis shows that we are far from knowing our fauna in a comprehensive manner. Much work is still necessary for our taxonomists, many inputs will still be entered into the system. We hope that the CTFB, therefore, represents a facilitator and induces further studies to describe more effectively the animal diversity in Brazil.","curation":"NotCurated","hasTaxonData":false,"recordCount":188924,"updatedAt":"2026-02-20"},{"id":215,"title":"World Spider Catalogue","titleShort":"WSC","version":"v26","releaseDate":"2025-12-10","description":"The current catalog is the first fully searchable online database covering spider taxonomy, but it has a longer history of predecessors which started with Pierre Bonnet (University of Toulouse, France) and Carl Friedrich Roewer (Bremen, Germany). Bonnet's seven scholarly books of his Bibliographia araneorum, published in three volumes 1945-1961, were fully comprehensive and covered literature on all aspects of spider biology through 1939, on more than 6400 pages. Roewer's Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940 (three books, published in two volumes, more than 2700 pages) were published 1942-1955 and covered the taxonomically useful literature through 1940 or 1954 (depending on the taxon).\n\nThe next important step was performed by Paolo M. Brignoli (University of Aquila, Italy) with his Catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940 and 1981, published 1983. This 750 pages volume filled many of the post-Roewer gaps (through 1980, with scattered coverage of later papers as well). Brignoli intended to issue Catalogue supplements at periodic intervals but this stopped due to his untimely death in 1986. Fortunately, Brignoli’s idea could be continued because Norman I. Platnick (American Museum of Natural History, New York) accepted the challenge to take over the task of preparing supplements to Brignoli's volume. In the next decade, three supplement volumes (1989, 1993, 1997) of Advances in Spider Taxonomy with together 2500 pages were published, covering the literature from 1981 through 1995 and including all synonyms, transfers, and re-descriptions from 1940 to 1980.\n\nBy the end of the 20th century it became obvious that the increasing quantity of taxonomic information could no longer be managed in the conventional way. So far more than 10’000 catalog pages and (currently) an annual influx of more than 300 taxonomic publications with descriptions of ca. 900 new species need an internet based solution. Platnick started this task with a first online version of his World Spider Catalog in 2000 and continued through 2014, with two updated versions per year, a total of 30 updates. The catalog was hosted at the American Museum of Natural History and served as HTML files per family. You can find a complete archive.\n\nWith the retirement of Platnick in 2014, the Natural History Museum Bern (Switzerland) accepted to continue Platnick’s work and took over the World Spider Catalog. All data provided by the catalog version 14.5 has been processed in order to fit into a relational database. One of the major achievements of a true database is that it is fully searchable over the complete content of spider taxonomy since 1757 when the first now acknowledged 68 spider species were described by Carl Clerck. Another important novelty is the link to the World Spider Catalog Association (WSCA) which intends to provide access to more than 12’000 taxonomic publications which are behind this database information.\n\nThe World Spider Catalog considers all taxonomically useful published work. Unpublished statements – even if correct – will not be taken over here. Also contents of websites that are not published elsewhere are not considered. Roewer and Platnick set standards for the Catalog that persist largely until today. Basically, this includes all descriptions of new species, transfers, synonymies and all taxonomically useful (i.e., illustrated) references to previously described taxa. Electronic supplements can be considered in combination with the corresponding main article. Not included are fossils (but see the separate fossil section), subfamilial or subgeneric divisions and allocations, or mentions of taxa in purely faunistic works (unless accompanied by useful illustrations).\n\nThe catalog entries for literature prior to 1940 do not reflect a complete re-check of the classical literature. Roewer's listings based on the classical literature have largely been accepted, and only discrepancies detected between Roewer's and Bonnet's treatments have been re-checked and resolved. These listings are not intended to supplant either Roewer's or Bonnet's volumes, but rather to provide a quick, electronically searchable guide to the most important literature on spider systematics, worldwide. Investigators doing original research should still check the listings in Roewer and Bonnet; we hope that omissions are few, but no project of this magnitude could ever be error-free.\n\nIn certain cases, published nomenclatural or taxonomical changes will not be taken over by the catalog. This includes for example cases with violations of the provisions of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. In debatable cases (e.g. purely typological genus-splitting without phylogenetic reasons), an expert board will decide the case democratically. However, if some published alterations are not taken over by the catalog, the respective information and reference is given anyway.\n\nThe brief descriptions of geographic ranges are provided only as a general guide; no attempt has been made to ensure that they are comprehensive.","isOutlinkReady":true,"curation":"Curated","hasTaxonData":true,"recordCount":69010,"updatedAt":"2026-03-26"}]