Appendix:Taxonomy reference templates

This Appendix is intended to indicate what can be found at certain websites (or URLs) that contain taxonomic information. Sister projects are not included.

A
 * - detailed, comprehensive coverage of all ranks of algae and all types of algae, whatever their highest level classification, including placement, name status, subordinate taxa.
 * - specific details, possibly useful in producing a definition.
 * - all (or at least most) names of zoological taxa established from 1757 until the early 1790s, the beginnings of modern taxonomy
 * (Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, Missouri Botanical Garden) - advanced, modern coverage of plant taxa (and clades) generally ranked above tribe.

B
 * - modern placement of Brassicaceae genera and species into tribes (with cladograms).
 * - many arthropods, mostly non-marine

C
 * - Bare list of taxa, hierarchically arranged

D
 * - accessible articles on selected taxa (UNDERUSED)
 * - accessible articles on selected taxa (UNDERUSED)

E
 * - very uneven effort to collect taxonomic information from many sources on taxa of all kinds; useful for some new taxa; may continue to improve.

F
 * - wonderfully detailed information on fish species and genera, including numerous vernacular names, sometimes in many languages
 * - a comprehensive source of information on fossils; valuable for information on extinct taxa; apparently students of extinct animals do not always find modern taxa compatible with their grouping of bones by morphology, so placement in taxonomic groups can use older taxon names.

G
 * and - Good information on plant taxa of economic importance or native to North America
 * - Good information on conifers.

I
 * - definitive source on taxonomy of viruses
 * - comprehensive coverage of taxonomic names of fungi.
 * - includes names not found in indexes of other databases, including disused names
 * - placement of many animals; good non-technical articles on some
 * - birds
 * - mosses and lichen
 * - Hymenoptera
 * (Integrated Taxonomic Information System) - a good database covering all kingdoms, particularly for North America, including Mexico)
 * - a modern consensus high-level (orders and above) effort attempting to achieve some kind of standard organization of taxa (PDF available)

L
 * (List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature) - Archaea, Bacteria

M
 * - Definitive work on mammals
 * - comprehensive database of fungi; good information on classification; very comprehensive list of names, many of which may be synonyms.

N
 * (National Center for Biological Information (US)) - a very useful database for adding links to other databases for most taxa.

P
 * (The Plant List) - a comprehensive database of plant names, that classifies them by status (accepted, synonym, etc) and a level of confidence in the status
 * - Etymological information

T
 * (Tree of Life) - excellent, but very incomplete, coverage of higher level taxa in article form
 * (Missouri Botanical Garden) - Excellent database of plants

U
 * (US Dept of Agriculture) - good information, including images and North America distribution maps, for plants of US and Canada and others of economic importance

W
 * - jellies and polyps
 * (World Register of Marine Species) - excellent database on taxonomy of all kinds of marine life and many from other environments.

Z
 * - plant taxa etymology