Zoology and Tropical Ecology Guide: Websites

Provides access to information on amphibian declines, conservation, natural history, and taxonomy

Database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology

USDA site providing information for improved animal care and use in research, testing, teaching, and exhibition

Collaborative effort between scientists from around the world, aiming at providing the best possible access to the wealth of information on ants

Records about 10,000 species and 22,000 subspecies of birds, including distribution information, taxonomy, synonyms in several languages and other features

Part of a National Science Foundation-sponsored project aimed at expanding knowledge of systematics of the unusually diverse marine gastropod genus Conus

Information about the 23 species of crocodiles found in the world

"an unprecedented global partnership between the scientific community and the general public. Our goal is to make freely available to anyone knowledge about all the world’s organisms. Anybody can register as an EOL member and add text, images..... to EOL pages. Expert curators ensure quality of the core collection by authenticating materials...... together we can make EOL the best, most comprehensive source for biodiversity information"

A global information system on fishes

LepIndex is essentially a computerised and updated version of the Natural History Museum's (NHM) card index archive to the scientific names of the living and fossil butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) of the world

From the California Academy of Sciences - approximately 56,000 described species and subspecies of fishes - "the first treatment of all described fishes since Linnaeus in 1758."

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

Conservation status, taxonomy, and distribution of animals and plants, along with an evaluation of their risk of extinction

From the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

The Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) is a collaborative effort of biologists and nature enthusiasts from around the world. On more than 10,000 World Wide Web pages, the project provides information about biodiversity, the characteristics of different groups of organisms, and their evolutionary history (phylogeny)