Template:Cite taxon/doc

This template aims to provide a standard way of referencing taxonomic databases. It uses module:Cite taxon. The module was created as module:FishRef to generate cite web references to the Catalog of Fishes database. The capabilities were extended to handle other fish-related references, hence the original module name, and the system now covers a number of taxonomic databases covering amphibia, reptiles, birds, mammals and plants, as well as a few invertebrate and general databases.

The template provides a wrapper to the cite web system, which means that the references can also include general cite web parameters (e.g.  or  ). The module provides the information for website/database, authors/editors and generates default links and titles based on provided parameters such as id, species, genus, family, taxon. In all cases the link and title can be overridden with url and title.

Usage
The basic usage is

Fish
Fishbase:
 * [with named parameters]
 * [subspecies with named parameters]

Catalog of Fishes:

Fishes of the World 5 (5th edition)

Amphibians and Reptiles
 Amphibian Species of the World (ASW6)
 * [default page with taxonomic listing]
 * [title with url]
 * [family without url]
 * [family without url]
 * [superfamily without url]
 * [search for taxon]
 * [search for genus]
 * [[search for species; goes to search result, not directly to species page]

AmphibiaWeb
 * [title with url]
 * [family without url]
 * [genus]
 * [genus + species]
 * [genus + species]
 * [genus + species]

Reptile database:

Birds
HBW Alive (defunct: incorporated into Birds of the World)

International Ornithological Congress (IOC) (IOC redirects for families no longer work)

Birds of the World Online (BOW)


 * raw:
 * title+url:
 * title+id:
 * citation:
 * title+id:
 * citation:
 * title+id:
 * citation:
 * citation:
 * citation:

Avibase



Mammals
ASM Mammal Diversity Database


 * Use title and url parameters:
 * Use id, genus and species parameters:
 * Use id, genus and species parameters:
 * Use id, genus and species parameters:

MSW3

Plants
Plants of the World Online



World Flora Online



Tropicos



Flora of North America



IPNI



World Plants



World Ferns



 Mosses (Goffinet)





AlgaeBase



Misc
Catalogue of Life





Benton's Vertebrate Palaeontology (4th edition)



Fossilworks

WoRMS
 * An alternative template is Cite WoRMS, e.g.
 * An alternative template is Cite WoRMS, e.g.
 * An alternative template is Cite WoRMS, e.g.