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Animal Diversity Web
Has a great TaxonTree java tool.
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Australian-Insects
An ongoing work in progress. Although
spiders are not insects, arachnids are also included in the database. There are
thought to be approximately 220,000 different species of insects in Australia.
There are currently around 86,000 species identified in 661 families. Worldwide,
it is estimated that there are 30 million different species of insects, making
up to almost 90% of all living things on the planet.
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Biology-Online.org
Information in the Life Sciences. Includes a
Dictionary section.
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All Leps Barcode of Life
Lepidoptera are the second-most diverse
order of insects (after Coleoptera the beetles). There are about 180,000 known
species of Lepidoptera and another 300,000 likely await description. This site
is the on-line home of an effort that employs DNA barcoding to advance the
identification and discovery of Lepidoptera. This work is being conducted by
researchers with expertise in ecology, molecular evolution and taxonomy aided by
many dedicated amateur lepidopterists.
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The Taxonomicon & Systema
Naturae 2000
The classification of life is changing
rapidly. As new techniques reveal more about the phylogenetic relationship
between taxa, the tree changes shape almost every day. Taxonomy today is more
exciting than ever before, but this constant change creates a need for stability
and insight into the relationships between the classifications themselves.
Systema Naturae 2000 is trying to satisfy the need for insight into the
relationships between the classifications and enters in to a journey on the vast
ocean, called taxonomy.
You can search using
The Taxonomicon.
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Wikispecies - The Free Encyclopedia
Supported by the Wikimedia Foundation,
Wikispecies is a project with aims to becoming an open, free directory of
species. This will cover Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Bacteria, Archaea, Protista
and all other forms of life to the extent that our users allow us.
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World
Biodiversity Database (WBD)
Consists of a number of separate projects,
each with its own interface and feature set.
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Zipcode Zoo
Working to become a proper home base
for Naturalist, both amateur and professional. The focus is Applied
Biogeography: understanding plants and animals in their place, perhaps even your
backyard.
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Zodiac Publications
Ph: 07 4095 4469
Garry and Nada Sankowsky are volunteer collectors of herbarium specimens with high quality digital images (vouchered photographs) for
various Australian Herbaria, Universities and other scientific institutions.
They also have a two hectare garden contains the largest living collection of Tropical Australian rainforest
plants. Almost all of these are collected from the wild and so are of high
scientific value.
Their main project is the continual upgrading of the
Australian Tropical Plants
DVD Rom, that can be ordered online from their website.
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