User:Gaurav/Biodiversity databases

Here is some information on biodiversity databases I collected once. Someday I (or someone else) will hopefully move them into List of biodiversity databases.

Other databases available for download

 * USDA GRIN Taxonomy
 * http://www.ars-grin.gov/
 * http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/index.pl?view=downl&language=en


 * Checklists on Project Gutenberg
 * Animals: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/150


 * GBIF
 * A source of verbatim names (although presumably some of those names have been corrected): http://data.gbif.org/species/4969819/


 * Freebase
 * Wikispecies
 * ENA (EMBL-EBI) taxonomy data
 * Identical to NCBI Taxonomy, including using the same identifiers: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/about/taxonomy_download


 * Cephaloleia beetles
 * Most other LifeDesks don't have a one-click classification-as-DwC-A download option like this one does: http://cephaloleia.lifedesks.org/


 * Metalmark Moths
 * http://choreutidae.lifedesks.org/


 * IOC World Bird List:
 * Does not appear to contain synonyms: http://www.worldbirdnames.org/ioc-lists/master-list/


 * USDA PLANTS checklist
 * http://plants.usda.gov/dl_all.html


 * Sponge barcoding project
 * http://www.palaeontologie.geo.uni-muenchen.de/sbd/list.php


 * MycoBank
 * http://www.mycobank.org/Biolomics.aspx?Table=Mycobank&Page=200&ViewMode=Basic


 * AntWeb
 * Has a bunch of separately available resources.
 * The Bolton catalog – including publications – can be bought on CD: http://www.amazon.com/Boltons-Catalogue-Ants-World-1758-2005/dp/0674021517
 * They also have http://www.antcat.org/ (the Bolton catalogue) and http://www.antwiki.org/ (which does have a download, see above!)
 * Links to publications, which are are identified by page and PDFs included for some.
 * See http://www.antwiki.org/Category:Species for all the species (nicely formatted!) on AntWiki


 * VegBank : http://vegbank.org/vegbank/general/faq.html#whatconcept (has taxon concepts!)
 * iNaturalist : http://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_changes (has taxon concepts!)

Databases NOT available for download

 * WoRMS: Need permission.
 * PaleoDB
 * TROPICOS
 * The Plant List
 * AlgaTerra (microalgae)
 * http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/about.do
 * Amphibian Species of the World: http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/
 * The Global Lepidoptera Names Index: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/research/projects/lepindex/
 * Fishbase: http://www.fishbase.org/ (available on EOL)
 * Index to Organism Names (ION): http://www.organismnames.com/
 * Index Fungorum: http://www.indexfungorum.org/
 * Angiosperm Phylogeny Website: http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/APWeb/welcome.html
 * Reptile Database: http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/advanced_search?submit=Search – Available on EOL.
 * Wikispecies – http://species.wikimedia.org/ (but dwca-hunter can download it)
 * A Checklist of Mosses. M.R. Crosby et. al. 1999 http://www.mobot.org/mobot/tropicos/most/checklist.shtml
 * AviBase (birds): http://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/
 * Species Fungorum's Family Names Database: searching for '%' appears to provide every family name (2,172 records returned): http://www.speciesfungorum.org/Names/families.asp
 * AlgaTerra Diatom Names: http://www.algaterra.org/L-B-Names.htm
 * http://www.isth.info/biodiversity/index.php
 * World Porifera Database: http://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxlist&pid=558&rComp=%3E%3D&tRank=220
 * Glomeromycota SPECIES LIST: http://www.lrz.de/~schuessler/amphylo/
 * UNH HGGS Nematode Database: http://nematol.unh.edu/browse.php
 * Checklist of the beetles of Canada and Alaska: http://www.canacoll.org/Coleo/Checklist/checklist.htm
 * In 1936, 1947 and 1949, the AAAS published a list of higher zoological names: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/6792

Regional databases

 * Australia
 * Australia's Virtual Herbarium: http://avh.ala.org.au/sp/help.html#downloads
 * Australia Plant Name Index: http://www.cpbr.gov.au/apni/apni.html

Lists of other databases

 * CoL’s databases: http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/info/databases
 * http://www.theplantlist.org/about/#collaborators
 * http://bgbm3.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/IOPI/GPC/datasets.asp

Others
Databases to add to one of the lists above after more research.
 * http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/diptera/biosys.htm