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Resources in Life Sciences: Taxonomic Guides
Encyclopedias or taxonomic guides contain the scientific names for animals or plants. Some online guides are listed below.
For information on finding additional Internet resources, see Searching for and Evaluating Web Resources.
- Animal Diversity Web: Guide to the animal kingdom only; includes general information about species, pictures, sounds, and classification
- ITIS: Integrated Taxonomic Information System: authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world; as of July 2005, contains more than 392,000 scientific names, more than 67% of which have been verified in the literature, leaving about 126,000 names as unverified legacy data
- NCBI Taxonomy Browser: contains the names of all organisms that are represented in the genetic databases with at least one nucleotide or protein sequence
- Britannica Encyclopedia Online
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