CONTENTS Astronomy: Birds: Climate: Fishes: Fossils: Insects: Mammals: Plants: Reptiles: Taxonomic: Viruses:

Astronomy: Astronomy Thesaurus Index http://msowww.anu.edu.au/library/thesaurus/english/ A thesaurus of terminology in the field of astronomy. Go back to Contents Birds: Bird Families of the World : The Sibley and Monroe Classification http://montereybay.com/creagrus/list.html Go back to Contents ___________________________________  |  TechServ Climate: Glossary (Weather Channel) http://www.weather.com/glossary/ Weather & Climate Glossary http://www.ocs.ou.edu/educational/glossary.html Go back to Contents Fishes: Catalog of Fishes http://www.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/index.html FishBase http://www.fishbase.org/search.cfm Regulatory Fish Encyclopedia / U.S. Food & Drug Administration http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~frf/rfe0.html The Seafood List / U.S. Food & Drug Administration http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~frf/seaintro.html "The Seafood List" is a compilation of existing acceptable market names for imported and domestically available seafood as well as scientific names, common names, and known vernacular or regional names. Go back to Contents ___________________________________  |  TechServ Fossils: The Fossil Encyclopedia http://www.tyrrellmuseum.com/encyclo/ The Leakey Foundation http://www.leakeyfoundation.org/ A member supported organization committed to research related to human origins. Go back to Contents Insects: Butterflies of North America / Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/lepid/BFLYUSA/BFLYUSA.HTM Moths of North America / Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/lepid/moths/mothsusa.htm Orthoptera Species File Online http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/Orthoptera World List of Insect Families / National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution http://nmnhwww.si.edu/gopher%2Dmenus/WorldListofInsectFamilies.html Go back to Contents ___________________________________  |  TechServ Mammals: Mammal Species of the World / National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution http://nmnhwww.si.edu/msw/ The Mammal Species of the World (MSW) contains the names of the 4,629 currently recognized species of mammals, in a taxonomic hierarchy that includes Order, Family, Subfamily, and Genus. Go back to Contents Plants: Dictionary of Common Names http://www.plantpress.com/docn.htm The Families of Flowering Plants http://biodiversity.uno.edu/delta/angio/index.htm Forestry : Terminology Collection - Online Dictionaries http://www.uwasa.fi/comm/termino/collect/forestry.html Directory of online directories about forestry. Grass Genera of the World http://biodiversity.uno.edu/delta/grass/index.htm Index Nominum Genericorum (Plantarum) http://www.nmnh.si.edu/ing/ The Index Nominum Genericorum (ING), a collaborative project of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) and the Smithsonian Institution, was initiated in 1954 as a compilation of generic names published for all organisms covered by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature. Index Nominum Supragenericorum Plantarum Vascularium http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Colleges/LFSC/life_sciences/.plant_biology/.WWW/supragen.html The purpose of the project is to capture all valid and legitimate extant vascular plants names, as defined by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, proposed above the rank of genus. Plants National Database http://plants.usda.gov/ The PLANTS Database is a single source of standardized information about plants. This database focuses on vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories. The PLANTS Database includes names, checklists, automated tools, identification information, species abstracts, distributional data, crop information, plant symbols, plant growth data, plant materials information, plant links, references, and other plant information Vascular Plant Families and Genera http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/web.dbs/vascplnt.html The data presented here are taken from the publication Vascular Plant Families and Genera compiled by R. K. Brummitt and published by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1992. Go back to Contents ___________________________________  |  TechServ Reptiles: Crocodilian, Tuatara, and Turtle Species of the World : an online taxonomic and geographic reference http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/herpetology/turtcroclist/ The EMBL Reptile Database http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/~uetz/LivingReptiles.html Go back to Contents Taxonomic: Index to Organism Names http://www.biosis.org.uk/free_resources/ion.html The Index to Organism Names is a tool for biologists sponsored and hosted by BIOSIS, incorporating name data from resources of BIOSIS and several other collaborating organizations. It is maintained in the UK by staff of the Zoological Record Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) http://www.itis.usda.gov/plantproj/itis/itis_query.html The Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) is a partnership of U.S., Canadian, and Mexican agencies, other organizations, and taxonomic specialists cooperating on the development of an on-line, scientifically credible, list of biological names focusing on the biota of North America. Go back to Contents ___________________________________  |  TechServ Virsuses: Index Virum : Catalogue of Viruses http://life.anu.edu.au/viruses/Ictv/index.html Go back to Contents

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