Based in Korea, this group strives to support taxonomic and biological insect research. Access the database, or read the journal Insecta Koreana.
Project to identify and name European marine species is scheduled for completion in March of 2000. Also find a list of taxonomic experts.
Directs users to 132 different databases relating to these species. Select a species group along with a country or a region.
Study attempts to understand evolutionary paths and paleoenvironmental conditions by documenting the distribution of mammal species in the US.
Journal explains, for the layperson, this system for finding the evolutionary relationships between organisms.
Focuses on the invertebrates of the southern hemisphere and the Indo-Pacific region. Read sample articles, or subscribe for full access.
Publishes original papers in the field of classification, numerical taxonomy, tree structures, and other network models.
Resource for children outlines the classifications of plants and animals. Provides links to more details on specific species.
Lab is used in various courses at the university. It seeks to reveal the field's creativity and how classification schemes are derived.
Features a definition of this biological classification category, and an example of its use.
Introduces the biological concepts used in defining a species, and discusses the evolutionary processes by which they develop.
Provides a concise overview of the field and its history. Includes a link to an article about seminal taxonomist Carolus Linnaeus.
Encarta offers a discussion of the characteristics of vertebrate animals and provides links to related animals and topics.
Browse the taxonomy tree to find sequence data for a group of organisms. Lists the resources used to compile the database.
Learn how to reconstruct evolutionary relationships by reviewing systematics, phenetics, and cladistics. Provides test questions and an exercise.
Strives to be the baseline database of biological diversity by cataloguing every species on the planet. Search for taxonomic checklists.
Quarterly journal from the University of Texas announces job openings, calls for papers, and conferences. Read abstracts of articles.
Glossary defines terms in the field of taxonomy, such as "emendation" and "holotype."
Darwin Initiative Project presents an identification key and allows users to browse families and genera.
Find a specialist in the field of North American biota. Search by name or by taxonomic, geographic, or habitat expertise.
Study researches the relationship between birds and mammals and discusses whether amphibians are monophyletic. Find teaching tools and databases.
Sciences Explorer presents a basic introduction to organism classification, describing each taxonomic level and outlining the systems' history.
Explore the taxonomy of Texas opossums, shrews and moles, bats, armadillos, rabbits, rodents, carnivores, seals, manatees, whales, and dolphins.
World Conservation Monitoring Centre posts tables of statistics depicting the status of endangered species around the world.
Connects British museums, research labs, and scientists. Find event listings, news updates, a background history, and committee member profiles.
University's Museum of Paleontology explains this manner of classifying organisms. Learn about "shared derived characteristics."
Guide to whales includes a basic definition of cladistics, which is a way of categorizing organisms by their ancestry.