This page is a set of links to useful phylogeny and taxonomy resources. These will include specialist sites on perticular groups of organisms, checklists, databases, and important scientific papers.

General

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Catalogue of Life (CoL): home and treeview
- List of source databases: https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/source-datasets
- Catalog of Life China Taxonomy
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Hierarchy
Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera (IRMNG) Taxon Tree
Taxonomicon – a selection of phylogenetic trees based on particular sources, e.g. MSW, McKenne Bell, as well as the Species 2000 taxonomy.
Paleobiology database: taxon search | alternative output
Fossilworks: home | taxon search (dead as of April 2024)
REPAD: The Recently Extinct Plants and Animals Database Contains 11,805 (sub)species (as of April 2024).
Wikispecies resources: species:Help:Project_sources and species:User:Tony_1212/default_treatments_by_group

Viruses

International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV)
- ICTV Taxonomy (interactive list from realm to species)
- ICTV Master Species Lists (excel files; latest [2020.v1)

Bacteria and Archaea

GTDB release 07-RS207 (8th April 2022).
- "GTDB release 07-RS207". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
- "bac120_r207.sp_label". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
- "Taxon History". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 20 June 2022.</ref>
Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology https://www.bergeys.org/publications/
LPSN - List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature: home | classification | old version

Eukaryotes

Ruggiero scheme:
- Ruggiero et al (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms.^[1]

Adl scheme:
- Adl et al (2019) Revisions to the Classification, Nomenclature, and Diversity of Eukaryotes.^[2]
- Adl et al (2012) The revised classification of eukaryotes.^[3]
- Adl et al (2005) The New Higher Level Classification of Eukaryotes with Emphasis on the Taxonomy of Protists.^[4]^[5]
Books and other proposals
- Philippe Silar's Protistes Eucaryotes.^[6]
- Handbook of the Protists, Second Edition. (ed: John M. Archibald, Alastair G.B. Simpson, Claudio H. Slamovits) ^[7]
- Tedersoo's Proposal for practical multi-kingdom classification of eukaryotes based on monophyly and comparable divergence time criteria (was this ever published?)
Databases:
- UniEuk Universal taxonomic framework: eukmap home | eukmap interactive taxonomy
- mikrotax.org: pforams@mikrotax (foraminifera)] | Nannotax (coccolithophores) | Cenozoic radiolaria | acritarchs

References

^ Ruggiero, Michael A.; Gordon, Dennis P.; Orrell, Thomas M.; Bailly, Nicolas; Bourgoin, Thierry; Brusca, Richard C.; Cavalier-Smith, Thomas; Guiry, Michael D.; Kirk, Paul M. (2015). "A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms". PLOS ONE. 10 (4): e0119248. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. ISSN 1932-6203.((cite journal)): CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
^ Adl, Sina M.; Bass, David; Lane, Christopher E.; Lukeš, Julius; Schoch, Conrad L.; Smirnov, Alexey; Agatha, Sabine; Berney, Cedric; Brown, Matthew W.; Burki, Fabien; Cárdenas, Paco; Čepička, Ivan; Chistyakova, Ludmila; del Campo, Javier; Dunthorn, Micah; Edvardsen, Bente; Eglit, Yana; Guillou, Laure; Hampl, Vladimír; Heiss, Aaron A.; Hoppenrath, Mona; James, Timothy Y.; Karpov, Sergey; Kim, Eunsoo; Kolisko, Martin; Kudryavtsev, Alexander; Lahr, Daniel J. G.; Lara, Enrique; Le Gall, Line; Lynn, Denis H.; Mann, David G.; Massana i Molera, Ramon; Mitchell, Edward A. D.; Morrow, Christine; Park, Jong Soo; Pawlowski, Jan W.; Powell, Martha J.; Richter, Daniel J.; Rueckert, Sonja; Shadwick, Lora; Shimano, Satoshi; Spiegel, Frederick W.; Torruella i Cortes, Guifré; Youssef, Noha; Zlatogursky, Vasily; Zhang, Qianqian (2018). "Revisions to the Classification, Nomenclature, and Diversity of Eukaryotes". Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. doi:10.1111/jeu.12691. ISSN 1066-5234.
^ Adl, Sina M.; Simpson, Alastair G. B.; Lane, Christopher E.; Lukeš, Julius; Bass, David; Bowser, Samuel S.; Brown, Matthew W.; Burki, Fabien; Dunthorn, Micah; Hampl, Vladimir; Heiss, Aaron; Hoppenrath, Mona; Lara, Enrique; le Gall, Line; Lynn, Denis H.; McManus, Hilary; Mitchell, Edward A. D.; Mozley-Stanridge, Sharon E.; Parfrey, Laura W.; Pawlowski, Jan; Rueckert, Sonja; Shadwick, Laura; Schoch, Conrad L.; Smirnov, Alexey; Spiegel, Frederick W. (2012). "The Revised Classification of Eukaryotes". Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 59 (5): 429–514. doi:10.1111/j.1550-7408.2012.00644.x. ISSN 1066-5234.
^ Adl, Sina M.; Simpson, Alastair G. B.; Farmer, Mark A.; Andersen, Robert A.; Anderson, O. Roger; Barta, John R.; Bowser, Samuel S.; Brugerolle, Guy; Fensome, Robert A.; Fredericq, Suzanne; James, Timothy Y.; Karpov, Sergei; Kugrens, Paul; Krug, John; Lane, Christopher E.; Lewis, Louise A.; Lodge, Jean; Lynn, Denis H.; Mann, David G.; Mccourt, Richard M.; Mendoza, Leonel; Moestrup, Ojvind; Mozley-Standridge, Sharon E.; Nerad, Thomas A.; Shearer, Carol A.; Smirnov, Alexey V.; Spiegel, Frederick W.; Taylor, Max F. J. R. (2005). "The New Higher Level Classification of Eukaryotes with Emphasis on the Taxonomy of Protists". The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 52 (5): 399–451. doi:10.1111/j.1550-7408.2005.00053.x. ISSN 1066-5234.
^ Adl, Sina M.; Leander, Brian S.; Simpson, Alastair G. B.; Archibald, John M.; Anderson, O. Roger.; Bass, David; Bowser, Samuel S.; Brugerolle, Guy; Farmer, Mark A.; Karpov, Sergey; Kolisko, Martin; Lane, Christopher E.; Lodge, Deborah J.; Mann, David G.; Meisterfeld, Ralf; Mendoza, Leonel; Moestrup, Øjvind; Mozley-Standridge, Sharon E.; Smirnov, Alexey V.; Spiegel, Frederick; Collins, Tim; Sullivan, Jack (2007). "Diversity, Nomenclature, and Taxonomy of Protists". Systematic Biology. 56 (4): 684–689. doi:10.1080/10635150701494127. ISSN 1076-836X.
^ Silar, Philippe (2016). Protistes Eucaryotes: Origine, Evolution et Biologie des Microbes Eucaryotes. pp. 1–462. ISBN 978-2-9555841-0-1.
^ Archibald, John M.; Simpson, Alastair G.B.; Slamovits, Claudio H., eds. (2017). Handbook of the Protists (2nd ed.). p. 1662. ISBN 331928147X.

Fungi

Outline of Fungi: https://www.outlineoffungi.org/outline.php (based on Wijayawardene et al., 2020; pdf)
MycoBank: https://www.mycobank.org/
Kew fungi resources
- Index Fungorum: search page
- Species Fungorum (part of Species 2000): search page

Plants

AlgaeBase; Taxonomy browser
Bryophytes
- Goffinet and Buck's Classification of extant moss genera
- The Bryophyte Nomenclator (Edited by John C. Brinda and John J. Atwood)
  - home and name search
  - A Classification of the Bryobiotina
- Villarreal and Goffinet's Phylogenetic arrangement of hornwort genera
- Söderström et al (2016) World checklist of hornworts and liverworts
- British mosses (DELTA database)

"Pteridophytes"
- The Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group^[1]
- World Ferns - the updated version of Michael Hassler's Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World
- Tropicos Ferns & Lycophytes (family, generic lists)
- British ferns (DELTA database)

Kew resources
- Plants of the World Online (POWO)
  - Accepted families: http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/?f=family_f%2Caccepted_names&page.size=480
  - Python access to API: https://github.com/RBGKew/pykew
- World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) [superceded by WCVP after 2021]
  - Families included in the checklist | (archive of WCSP family list)
- World Checklist of Vascular Plants
  - browse treeview (family-genus-species) via ChecklistBank (includes families that are not used by CoL)
    - legumes (LPWG)
  - Govaerts et al 2021
  - Vascular Plant Families and Genera R. K. Brummitt 1992 (no longer public; archived version)
- Angiosperm Tree of Life
  - Interactive tree | Baker et al 2021

Mobot resources
- World Flora Online (WFO)
  - Classification: interactive tree
  - Interactive list interface (Dec 2023 version): https://list.worldfloraonline.org/browser.php?id=wfo-4100001250-2023-12
- Tropicos
- Angiosperm Phylogeny Website
- eFloras: home/index
  - Flora of North America | Family list | (also at floranorthamerica.org)
  - Flora of China | Family list | (pdfs by family available at flora.huh.harvard.edu/china)
- A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin
Michael Hassler's World Plants
Angiosperm Phylogeny Group.
- Current version: APG IV
- Previous versions: APG III, APG II, APG I
Phylogeny posters by Cole et al: Bryophytes, Tracheophytes, Angiosperms
- Bryophyte Phylogeny Poster: BPP-2021-E-V1a.pdf
- Tracheophyte Phylogeny Poster: TPP-E-2020.pdf
- Angiosperm Phylogeny Poster: APP-E-2020.pdf
The International Fossil Plant Names Index (IFPNI). Global registry of scientific names of fossil organisms covered by the International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi, and Plants and the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
Other
- Legume treeview (LPWG via WCVP)
- www.compositae.org
  - Global Compositae Database via WoRMS: Search | Taxon Tree| [https://www.compositae.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1081107 Asteroideae
  - Download of Systematics, Evolution and Biogeography of the Compositae Funk, V., Susanna, A, Stuessy, T Y R. Bayer (eds.)
- Encyclopaedia of Bromeliads Version 4 (2018)
- Various DELTA databases: https://www.delta-intkey.com/www/data.htm
- Brazilian flora databases: Brazilian Flora 2020 WebService | Reflora Search | CNCFlora WebServices | CNCFlora Portal | Services home
On Wikipedia

References

^ PPG I (2016). "A community-derived classification for extant lycophytes and ferns". Journal of Systematics and Evolution. 54 (6): 563–603. doi:10.1111/jse.12229. ISSN 1674-4918.

Animals

Gonzalo Giribet, Gregory D. Edgecombe (3 Mar 2020) The Invertebrate Tree of Life Princeton University Press, 608 pages ^[1]
- Consensus phylogeny (googlebooks)
Animal Biodiversity series (Zhang 2011, 2013): 2011 contents | 2013 contents | Googlebooks of 2011 volume

References

^ Giribet, G.; Edgecombe, G.D. (2020). The Invertebrate Tree of Life. Princeton University Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-6911-7025-1. Retrieved 27 May 2023.

Invertebrates

General
- World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS): Advanced search | databases | Taxon tree (very good for some marine groups, but limited for terrestrial groups)
- Bugguide (many arthropod groups, but US and Canada only)

Annelids
- World Earthworm Database (drilobase) Families
- Nomenclatura Oligochaetologica home | genera | species
- Polychaetes (POLiKEY, e.g. Polynoidae)
- World Polychaeta Database (via WoRMS) (used by CoL)
- World List of Marine Oligochaeta (via WoRMS) (used by CoL)

Arthropods

Millipedes and centipedes (Myriapoda)
- ChiloBase 2.0: A World Catalogue of Centipedes (Chilopoda) for the Web (used by CoL)
- MilliBase (Diplopoda; millipedes) (via WoRMS) (used by CoL)
- World Database of littoral Myriapoda (via WoRMS)

Arachnids
- World Arachnida Catalog (including WSC)
  - Amblypygi | Aranae (=WSC)| Palpigradi | Pseudoscorpiones | Ricinulei | Schizomida | Solifugae | Uropygi
  - World Spider Catalog: Families
- Spider DELTA database
- The Scorpion Files: Intro and Family listings index
- World Catalogue of Opiliones (The complete taxonomy of world harvestmen)
- Pycnobase: World Pycnogonida Database (via WoRMS) (used by CoL)

Crustaceans (mainly covered by WoRMS projects)
- World of Copepods Database (viaWoRMS) (used by CoL)
- World Ostracoda Database (via WoRMS) (used by CoL)
- World List of Mystacocarida (via WoRMS) (used by CoL)
- World Ostracoda Database (via WoRMS) (used by CoL)
- World List of Brachypoda (Cephalocarida) (via WoRMS) (used by CoL)
- World Remipedia Database (via WoRMS) (used by CoL)
- Malacostraca
  - World Amphipoda Database (part of Peracarida<Eumalacostraca) (via WoRMS) (used by CoL)
  - World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database (part of Peracarida<Eumalacostraca)(via WoRMS) (used by CoL)
  - World List of Bochusacea (part of Peracarida<Eumalacostraca) (via WoRMS) (used by [1])
  - World Cumacea Database (part of Peracarida<Eumalacostraca) (via WoRMS) (used by CoL)
  - World List of Tanaidacea (part of Peracarida<Eumalacostraca) (via WoRMS) (used by CoL)
  - World List of Thermosbaenacea (part of Peracarida<Eumalacostraca) (via WoRMS) (used by CoL)
  - World List of Lophogastrida, Stygiomysida and Mysida ("Mysidacea", parts of Peracarida<Eumalacostraca) (via WoRMS)
  - World List of Leptostraca (Phyllocarida<Malacostraca) (via WoRMS (used by CoL)
  - World Euphausiacea Database (part of Eucarida<Eumalacostraca) (via WoRMS) (used by CoL)
  - World List of marine Brachyura (Decapoda<Eucarida) (via WORMS) (used by CoL)
  - DecaNet (World List of Decapoda): treeview (via WoRMS) (not currently used by CoL)
- Hexapoda (see insects section below)

Insects

General
- Nomina circumscribentia insectorum (Kluge N.J. 2004-2017)

Selected groups
- Early diverging orders: ?
- Polyneoptera: all orders are covered by Species File databases (see below)
- Psocodea
  - Psocodea Species File: taxa
  - https://phthiraptera.myspecies.info/ | classification
- Paraneoptera
  - The Flow databases cover various hemipteran groups
- Holometabola
  - See below for resources covering Coleoptera, Diptera, Lepidoptera and some Hymenopteran groups
  - World Strepsiptera Database (via WoRMS) (used by CoL)

Holometabola

Beetles (Coleoptera)
- World Scarabaeidae Database: accessible through CoL (info | interactive tree)
- CarabCat: Ground Beetles of the World: direct database access (not intuitive) | access though CoL (recommend by CarabCat)
- UK Beetles: home | classification/checklist | Family guide

Flies (Diptera)
- www.diptera.org: Family classification | Systema Dipterorum Nomenclator
- The (new) Diptera Site: https://diptera.myspecies.info: Diptera Classification (interactive tree)
- Other myspecies.info sites: Lonchaeidae | https://mosquito-taxonomic-inventory.myspecies.info/ Mosquito Taxonomic Inventory] (Culicidae) | Fungus Gnats Online (Sciaroidea)
- Flytree Project: home | Family supertree | archived higher-level phylogeny | archived supertree (slightly better resolution)
- Catalogue of the Craneflies of the World (Diptera, Tipuloidea: Pediciidae, Limoniidae, Cylindrotomidae, Tipulidae)

Butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera)
- NHM resources
  - Lepindex (NHM) | LepIndex ID (P3064)
  - Butterflies and Moths of the World (NHM) | Classification
  - Global Lepidoptera Index: CoL hosted | CoL tree | checklistbank
- www.nymphalidae.net:
  - Nymphalidae classification
  - The higher classification of Nymphalidae (to tribe) | The higher classification of Nymphalidae (to genus)
  - genus list | species list
- Afrotropical butterflies:
- Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa : European macro Lepidoptera tree | Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa ID (P9608)
- Charaxes.be (Vingerhoedt)
- Sphingidae Taxonomic Inventory (hawkmoths) (at myspecies.info; successor site to short-lived CATE Sphinidae) | taxonomy treeview

Wasps, ants and bees (Hymenoptera)
- Universal Chalcidoidea Database
- Catalog of Sphecidae (covers families Heterogynaidae, Ampulicidae, Sphecidae, and Crabronidae)
- Ants
  - Antwiki: Formicidae | Phylogeny of Formicidae (with Newick) | List of Genera | Phylogeny of Myrmicinae
  - http://www.antcat.org/ (Barry Bolton)
  - https://www.antweb.org/ (free licenced images)
  - http://antbase.org/ (not updated)
  - http://www.antbase.net/ (images)
  - https://antmaps.org/? (interactive distribution map: by subfamily, genus, etc)

Species Files and FLOW databases (Polyneoptera and Paraneoptera)

Species File databases: a number of taxonomic databases dealing with insect orders in Polyneoptera and Paraneoptera (see table below)
- index of Species Files databases (note species files are in the process of being updated)
- sfg-taxonpages on Github
- List of Species File databases used by CoL
  - SF Chrysididae (Hymenoptera): no website but used by CoL | checklistbank

FLOW databases (selected parts of Hemiptera):
- FLOW Fulgoromorpha Lists On the Web (Fulgoroidea, planthoppers): list | Classification
- White Files (Aleyrodoidea, whiteflies): Family list
- Psyl'List (Psylloiidea, jumping plant lice): Family list
- COOL (Cercopoidea, froghoppers): Family list
- Others (missing or not currently functioning): MBB (Coleorrhyncha, moss bugs), Lace Bug db (Tingidae, lace bugs), Flatbug db (Aradidae, flatbugs)

Species Files databases with Wikidata and CoL links

Database	old website	new website	taxa	checklistbank (CoL)	wd item	wd identifier	note
Arthropoda Species File:	home	n/a	taxa		Arthropoda Species File (Q115666025)	n/a	limited content
Polyneoptera Species File:	home	n/a	taxa		Polyneoptera Species File (Q115666028)	n/a	limited content
Zoraptera Species File	archive	home	taxa	checklistbank	Zoraptera Species File (Q115665927)	identifier required	updated
Dermaptera Species File	archive	home	taxa	checklistbank	Dermaptera Species File (Q115665911)	identifier required	updated
Plecoptera Species File	archive	home	taxa	checklistbank	Plecoptera Species File (Q115665917)	identifier required	updated
Orthoptera Species File	archive	home	taxa	checklistbank	Orthoptera Species File (Q57673331)	Orthoptera Species File ID (P6050)	updated (new ids)
Grylloblattodea Species File	archive	home	taxa	checklistbank	Grylloblattodea Species File (Q122839961)	identifier required	updated
Mantophasmatodea Species File	archive	home	taxa	checklistbank	Mantophasmatodea Species File (Q115665941)	identifier required	updated
Embioptera Species File	archive	home	taxa	checklistbank	Embioptera Species File Online (Q115665913)	identifier required	updated
Phasmida Species File	archive	home	taxa	checklistbank	Phasmida Species File (Q49417701)	Phasmida Species File ID (P4855)	updated (new ids)
Mantodea Species File	home	preview	taxa	checklistbank	Mantodea Species File (Q57714294)	Mantodea Species File ID (P6055)	pending
Cockroach Species File (Blattodea)	archive	home	taxa	checklistbank	Cockroach Species File (Q57715163)	Cockroach Species File ID (P6052)	updated (new ids)
Isoptera Species File (Blattodea)	n/a	home	taxa	checklistbank	Isoptera Species File (Q122839980)	identifier required	resurrected
Paraneoptera Species File	home	n/a	taxa		Paraneoptera Species File Online (Q115665926)	n/a	limited content
Psocodea Species File	archive	home	taxa	checklistbank	Psocodea Species File (Q89384967)	Psocodea Species File ID (P8145)	updated (new ids)
Thysanoptera							no species file
Hemiptera: in parts (incomplete)							see also FLOW
Aphid Species File (Aphidomorpha<Sternorrhyncha)	archive	home	taxa	checklistbank	Aphid Species File (Q115665963)	identifier required	pending
Coleorrhyncha Species File	archive	home	taxa	checklistbank	Coleorrhyncha Species File (Q115666044)	identifier required	updated
Coreoidea Species File (Pentatomomorpha<Heteroptera)	home	preview	taxa	checklistbank	Coreoidea Species File (Q57714687)	Coreoidea Species File ID (P6053)	pending
Lygaeoidea Species File (Pentatomomorpha<Heteroptera)	archive	home	taxa	checklistbank	Lygaeoidea Species File (Q115641818)	Lygaeoidea Species File ID (P11311))	updated (new IDs)
3i World Auchenorrhyncha Database	old 3i website	home	taxa	checklistbank	World Auchenorrhyncha Database (Q107302695)	World Auchenorrhyncha Database ID (P12057)	updated

Fish

Fishbase (main page with search): classification list (with stats) | classification tree (interactibe)
Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes
- Browse the Classification
FishWise Pro
Fishes of the World by Joseph S. Nelson (5th edition) (dead site: archived page)
- Detailed classification of all fishes (dead site: archived file)
Fish phylogenies
- deepfin.org Phylogenetic Classification of Bony Fishes (site dead)
  - Latest version: Classification v.4 (Betancur et al 2017)
  - Archived pages: home | Classification v.1 | Classification v.2 | Classification v.3 |
- Fish Tree of Life – interactive taxonomy (bony fishes)
- Chondrichthyan Tree of Life (sharks and rays; interactive)
- VertLife sharks (Stein et al, 2018^[1])
Other links
- The ETYFish Project: Fish Name Etymology Database © Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara
- Rays of the World (2022, Last, P. R., editor): Googlebooks (partial preview) | Internet Archive (whole book, hourly loan)
- Chondrichthyan Tree of Life (intractive species level phylogeny)

References

^ Stein, R. William; Mull, Christopher G.; Kuhn, Tyler S.; Aschliman,, Neil C.; Davidson,, Lindsay N. K.; Joy,, Jeffrey B.; Smith, Gordon J.; Dulvy, Nicholas K.; Mooers, Arne O. (2018). "Global priorities for conserving the evolutionary history of sharks, rays and chimaeras". Nature Ecology & Evolution (2): 288–298.((cite journal)): CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)

Amphibia

Amphibian Species of the World (ASW6.2)
Amphibiaweb Family Taxonomy
Useful links on Wikipedia:
- Project page: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Amphibians_and_Reptiles#Taxonomy
- Discussion of taxonomy used by Amphibian and Reptiles WikiProject: Revamp_of_WP:AAR
- My amphibia resource page: User:Jts1882/phylogeny/Amphibia

Reptiles

Reptile database
- Classification: Higher Taxa in Extant Reptiles
Specific groups
- Turtles: Turtles of the World Checklist | Thompson et al (2020) (phylogeny) | Joyce et al (2021) (phylocode)
Wikipedia
- My resource pages: Turtles | Squamata
- Phylogeny templates: ((Phylogeny/Squamata)) | ((Phylogeny/Snakes)) |

Birds

IOC World Bird List version 14.1
- Orders of Birds
- Family Index
- Working Group Avian Checklists (WGAC; last update June 2022)
Clements/eBird/Birds of the World
- Birds of the World – incorporating Cornell Lab resources (taxonomy, checklist) and content from the now defunct HBW Alive
  - Species list
  - Explore BOW Taxonomy: illustrated lists of orders, families and species | text listing (with subspecies) | JSON via API
- eBird taxonomy
- Clement's checklist (latest): Download checklist | Overview (2023) | Updates and Corrections (2023)
- Overview of changes and higher taxonomy (including family list): index of updates by year | 2019 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023
- All About Birds (600+ North American species): Browse by taxonomy
- James Jobling'sThe Key to Scientific Names: Introduction | Search
HBW/Birdlife
- Handbook of Birds of the World (HBW) 16 volumes
- HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist (currently v8.1)
Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of Birds of the World
- H&M4 Checklist family by family
Avibase
- Search by family (classification follows Howard and Moore for extant families)
- Taxon tree (higher taxa down to tribe; option for fossil taxa)
- Compare checklists (compare different checklists and versions)
Other
- Towards a global checklist: Working Group Avian Checklists
- American Ornithological Society's (AOS) Checklist of North and Middle American Birds (hierarchical list or csv file)
  - SACC classification and checklist: https://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCBaseline.htm
- John Boyd's Taxonomy in Flux
  - Comparison with Sibley system: http://jboyd.net/Taxo/sam1.html
- Don Roberson's Bird Families of the World (useful summaries of family reorganisation, e.g. [http://creagrus.home.montereybay.com/sylvid-old.html Sylviidae)
- Bird Families of the World (useful comparisons on Taxonomy page)
- Bird phylogenies on https://www.bird-phylogeny.de (higher phylogeny or orders)
- Bird Taxonomy and Nomenclature at BirdForum
- Zoonomen (nomenclature resource)
- Taxonomicon: Sibley & Monroe (1993)
- Archived list from Distribution and Taxonomy of Birds of the World (Sibley and Monroe, 1990): Non-Passeriformes sequence, Passeriformes sequence.
- Livezey and Zusi (2007) classification via taxonomicon
Wikiproject Birds:
- Wikiproject resource page: WP:WikiProject_Birds/References
- WikiProject_Birds: New_Phylogeny and Higher-order_relationships
- WikiProject_Birds: HBW_merging_into_Cornell_Lab and HBW_Alive_closing
- Talk:Passerine#Family listing and Talk:Passerine#Phylogeny
My bird subpages and phylogeny templates
- Comparison of phylogenetic studies: supraordinal relationships, passerine families and subordinal relationships
- Template:Phylogeny/Passerines

Mammals

ASM Mammal Diversity Database
- Version v1.12.1 (released 30 Jan 2024) | treeview
- New version in development on github: https://mammaldiversity.github.io/taxa.html
- Github: https://github.com/mammaldiversity/mammaldiversity.github.io | fork
Mammal Species of the World (Wilson & Reeder, 2005) (MSW3):
- Google books
- Online database (Bucknell; slight variations from book)
- Archive of Smithsonian online version.
- Taxonomicon tree (follows book classification)
http://hesperomys.com/ (taxa and names)
Handbook of Mammals of the World (HMW)
- Nine volumes: 1. Carnivores (2009) | 2. Hoofed Mammals (2011) | 3. Primates (2013) | 4. Sea Mammals (2014) | 5. Monotremes and Marsupials (2015) | 6. Lagomorphs and Rodents I (2016) | 7. Rodents II (2017) | 8. Insectivores, Sloths and Colugos (2018) | 9. Bats (2019)
- Illustrated Checklist of the Mammals of the World (2020) | Introduction
McKenna-Bell classification: Googlebooks | Taxonomicon
- Comparison with "traditional" classification: https://www.utep.edu/leb/classification/table1a.htm
Mammal classifications via Taxonomicon: Simpson (1945) |McKenna (1975) | McKenna & Bell (1997) | Wilson & Reeder (1993) | Wilson & Reeder (2005; MSW3)
Subgroups
- IUCN mammal specialist groups: https://www.iucn.org/ssc-groups/mammals
  - Cats – Canids – Small carnivores – Otters
  - Xenarthrans – Primates – Caprinae – Cattle – Antelopes –Small mammals
- Ultimate Ungulates list following the Grubb-Graves splits: http://www.ultimateungulate.com/NewTaxonomy.html
- An analysis of the G&G splits: https://www.zoochat.com/community/threads/ungulate-taxonomy-revisited-the-evidence-for-the-splits-of-g-g.467230/
- SMM lists for cetaceans, pinnepids and other marine mammals: https://marinemammalscience.org/species-information/list-marine-mammal-species-subspecies/
- https://batnames.org/. Bat Species of the World: A taxonomic and geographic database. (Nancy B. Simmons and Andrea L. Cirranello, 2018).

Archives of MSW3 at the Smithsonian

Archive of taxonomic browser on Smithsonian version of MSW3: Mammalia (captured 20110526)^[1]

Monotremata: Monotremata
Marsupials
- Didelphimorphia
- Paucituberculata
- Microbiotheria
- Notoryctemorphia
- Dasyuromorphia
- Peramelemorphia
- Diprotodontia
  - Biak glider Petaurus biacensis

Xenarthra
- Cingulata
- Pilosa
Aftotheria

Euarchontaglires
- Scandentia
- Dermoptera
- Primates
- Rodentia
  - Myodes rufocanus (grey red-backed vole)
- Lagomorpha
  - Prolagus

Laurasiatheria
- Erinaceomorpha
- Soricomorpha
- Chiroptera
- Pholidota
- Carnivora
  - Canis latrans (coyote)
- Perissodactyla
- Artiodactyla
  - Rangifer tarandus(reindeer)
- Cetacea

References

^ Wilson, Don E.; Reeder, DeeAnn M. "Mammal Species of the World". Smithsonian: National Museum of Natural History. Archived from the original on 26 May 2011.

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