LIFE SCIENCES

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   Amphibians & Reptiles

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• The Reptile Database  The database covers all living snakes, lizards, turtles, amphisbaenians, tuataras, and crocodiles. Currently there are more than 10,000 species including another 2,800 subspecies.

• Amphibiaweb  AmphibiaWeb provides information on amphibian declines, natural history, conservation, and taxonomy.

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   Birds

• All About Birds  A website from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology with a mission to interpret and conserve the earth’s biological diversity through research, education, and citizen science focused on birds.

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   Fish

• FishBase  Database covering 34,300 species, 326,400 common names, 59,800 pictures, 56,600 references from 2,350 collaborators.

• Fish and Aquatic Conservation Information from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service on 42 species of freshwater fish in America.

   

   Invertebrates

• Invertebrate Index This index is for insects, arachnids, worms, sponges and every other type of creature without a backbone.

• Invertebrate I.D. Index provided by the Oxford University Museum of Natural History

   

   Mammals

• The Animal Files

• Mammal Species of the World

• Animal Diversity Web

   

   Plants & Fungi

• Native Plant Trust  Go Botany is a four-year project funded by the National Science Foundation and aims to open plant study to a larger and more diverse segment of the population.

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility  Listings for Plantae species from the Catalogue of Life.

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