Table 2.
A selection of external resources relied on by NCBI Taxonomy curators
| Database name | URL | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Principal sites (used weekly) | ||
| AlgaeBase (16) | https://www.algaebase.org | Covers algae in the broad sense as photosynthetic eukaryotes excluding embryophytes. |
| Amphibian Species of the World (17) | http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/index.php | Regularly updated published by the American Museum of Natural History. |
| American Society of Mammalogists (ASM) Mammal Diversity Database (18) | https://mammaldiversity.org/ | Regularly updated database of mammal taxonomic and biodiversity information. |
| Avibase (19) | https://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/ | Complete data on birds. |
| Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen (DSMZ) (20) | https://www.dsmz.de/services/online-tools/prokaryotic-nomenclature-up-to-date | Compilation of all names of bacteria and archaea that have been validly published according to the ICNP. |
| Eschmeyer’s Catalog of Fishes (21) | https://www.calacademy.org/scientists/projects/eschmeyers-catalog-of-fishes | Authoritative reference for taxonomic fish names. |
| Global Lepidoptera Names Index (22) | https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/lepindex/ | Searchable database for world’s Lepidoptera names |
| International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) (23) | https://talk.ictvonline.org/taxonomy/ | Provides list of species, classification and exemplar GenBank accessions. |
| Index Fungorum (24) | http://www.indexfungorum.org | Comprehensive data on fungi. |
| Index Herbariorum (25) | http://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih | Database of the world’s herbaria. |
| Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) (26) | https://www.itis.gov | A partnership of federal and international agencies to provide an authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi and microbes. |
| International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (27) | https://www.ipni.org | Most complete tracheophyte database. |
| List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) (28) | http://lpsn.dsmz.de | List of prokaryotic names with standing in nomenclature. |
| MycoBank (29) | http://www.mycobank.org | Comprehensive data on fungi. |
| Nomenclator Zoologicus (30) | http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ | List of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758, to the end of 2004. |
| Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure (31) | http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/ | Annotated checklist of species occurring in Europe, aiming to cover the Western Palearctic biogeographic region. |
| Reptile Database (32) | http://www.reptile-database.org | Comprehensive data on reptiles |
| Tropicos (33) | https://www.tropicos.org | Especially good for bryophytes and New World tracheophytes |
| Wilson & Reeder’s Mammal Species of the World (34) | https://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/ | Online version of 3rd edition (2005) without subsequent updates. |
| World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (35) | https://wcsp.science.kew.org/home.do | Especially good for monocots. |
| World Flora Online (36) | http://www.worldfloraonline.org | Supersedes The Plant List (http://www.theplantlist.org). |
| World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (37) | http://www.marinespecies.org | A comprehensive and updated list of names and synonymies for marine organisms and for some terrestrial invertebrate groups. |