NCBI Taxonomy Homepage

The NCBI Taxonomy Homepage
http://www3.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/taxonomyhome.html

Integrated Taxonomic Information System

Authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world.
http://www.itis.usda.gov/

Taxonomy and Systematics at Glasgow

About taxonomy and systematics at the University of Glasgow, with links to other internet resources on these subjects.
http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/

Fairchild Tropical Garden Virtual Herbarium

Includes photos of more than 50,000 plant, palm, cycad and other cultivated tropical plants from Florida and taxonomic information on grasses, especially bamboos, and other economically important and interesting plants.
http://www.virtualherbarium.org

BioNET - International

A global network of country-owned collaborative LOOPs to support national programs for biosystematics to support goals in areas such as sustainable development and pest management.
http://www.bionet-intl.org

American Society of Plant Taxonomists

Promotes research and teaching in the taxonomy, systematics, and phylogeny of vascular and nonvascular plants.
http://www.sysbot.org/

Science at the Natural History Museum

A world leader for research on taxonomy and biodiversity.
http://www.naturalhistorymuseum.org.uk/science/

Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification

ETI is a non-governmental organisation in operational relations with UNESCO. Their mission is to develop scientific/educational computer-aided information systems, to improve general access to, and to promote use of taxonomic and biodiversity knowledge wo
http://www.eti.uva.nl/

Classification Lab

A project examining the phylogenetic tree of life and all of its features, with information and pictures for every class and an interactive, dynamic hierarchy.
http://sidwell.edu/us/science/vlb5/Labs/Classification_Lab/classification_lab.html

Scalenet - Glossary

A short glossary explaining some of the terms used in taxonomy. From a site on scale insects.
http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/scalenet/glossary.htm

ETI World Taxonomist Database

Directory of specialists searchable by name, country, or specialization.
http://www.eti.uva.nl/Database/WTD.html

Glossary of Phylogenetic Systematics

An annotated, extensive hypertext glossary of the terminology of Phylogenetic Systematics, with a discussion and criticsm of mainstream Computer Cladistics.
http://www.bechly.de/glossary.htm

Treebase

A relational database of phylogenetic trees and the data matrices used to generate them from published research papers. Includes animals, plants, and fungi.
http://www.treebase.org/treebase/

Biodiversity and Biological Collection Databases

Information of interest to systematists and other organismic biologists such as biological collections, taxonomic files, directories and ListServ archives, computer programs, reports by standards bodies (IOPI, ASC, and SA2000), and access to on-line journ
http://www.biocollections.org/

Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature

Etymologies, puns and funny sounds and wordplay in taxonomy.
http://home.earthlink.net/~misaak/taxonomy.html

Systema Naturae 2000

An up-to-date historical cross-referenced classification of life based on original authorative scientific literature.
http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/

Universal Biological Indexer and Organizer

A networked information service for biological information resources, based upon the Taxonomic Name Server, a thesaurus of taxonomic information.
http://www.ubio.org

DELTA: Description Language for Taxonomy

A flexible format for encoding taxonomic descriptions for computer processing. It can be used to produce natural-language descriptions, conventional or interactive keys, classifications, and information-retrieval systems.
http://delta-intkey.com/

Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy

National Science Foundation (USA) competition to support competitively reviewed research projects that target groups of poorly known organisms.
http://web.nhm.ku.edu/peet/

Biognomen

A Linnaean taxonomy arranged in hyperlinked evolutionary trees. One can navigate through the hierarchy vertically, or follow a lineage horizontally at a particular level of the hierarchy.
http://webpages.charter.net/teefile/biognomen/

Tree of Life

A project containing information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their history, and characteristics. The information is linked together in the form of the evolutionary tree that connects all organisms to each other.
http://tolweb.org/tree/