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Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification
http://www.eti.uva.nl/ ^pop
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 worldwide.

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

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

Biodiversity and Biological Collection Databases
http://www.biocollections.org/
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 journals.

Biognomen
http://webpages.charter.net/teefile/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.

BioNET - International
http://www.bionet-intl.org
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.

Classification Lab
http://sidwell.edu/us/science/vlb5/Labs/Classification_Lab/classification_lab.html
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.

Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature
http://home.earthlink.net/~misaak/taxonomy.html
Etymologies, puns and funny sounds, wordplay, and more in taxonomy.

DELTA: Description Language for Taxonomy
http://delta-intkey.com/
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.

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

Fairchild Tropical Garden Virtual Herbarium
http://www.virtualherbarium.org
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.

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

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

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

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

Science at the Natural History Museum
http://www.naturalhistorymuseum.org.uk/science/
A world leader for research on taxonomy and biodiversity.

Systema Naturae 2000
http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/
An up-to-date historical cross-referenced classification of life based on original authorative scientific literature.

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

Tree of Life
http://tolweb.org/
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.

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

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

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