Zoology and Animal Science

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AlgaeBase is a global algal database of taxonomic, nomenclatural and distributional information -166,672 species and infraspecific names, 22,910 images, 64,466 bibliographic items and 504,393 distributional records.

An online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation with student use in mind. It includes thousands of species accounts and descriptions of levels of organization above the species level, especially phyla, classes, and in some cases, orders and families.

A free online catalogue of taxonomic and biological information on all animal species known to occur in Australia and its territories.

A richly illustrated reference guide detailing the taxonomy, morphology and distribution of marine zooplankton species in Australian waters.

Catalogue of Life is a comprehensive and authoritative global index of species. It contains a species checklist and taxonomic hierarchy for 1.8+ million species

Authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world.

The museum’s research domain focusing on classification, evolutionary relationships and nomenclature of the natural world, using modern molecular, morphological and computational tools.

Species 2000 and Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) product, the Catalogue of Life, is the most comprehensive and authoritative global index of species currently available. Previous latest version: June 2016

Addresses critical gaps in taxonomic knowledge of key Australian animal and plant groups.

ZooBank is intended as the official registry of Zoological Nomenclature

Zootaxa is a peer-reviewed international journal of high quality papers on any aspect of systematic zoology.

The Atlas of Living Australia is a collaborative, national project that aggregates biodiversity data from multiple sources and makes it freely available and usable online.

The Australian SuperSite Network (ASN) is a national network of multidisciplinary ecosystem observatories. The ASN includes ten SuperSites that each represent a significant Australian biome. The network covers all States and Territories and spans a wide range of environmental conditions.

The CSIRO NCMI Information and Data Centre hosts numerous biological datasets. Our main sources of biological data are the surveys performed by the CSIRO Marine National Facility (RV Franklin, RV Southern Surveyor, RV Investigator). We also maintain datasets that were entrusted to us by other institutions (e.g., Bureau of Rural Sciences, Soviet Fisheries, and Western Australian Museum).