Natural History Links
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Harvard-Provided Resources
- Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ)
- Harvard Museum of Natural History
- Harvard University Botany Libraries
- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (OEB)
- Web of Science
- BIOSIS
- Zoological Record
- CAB Abstracts
- ChemBank
- Ernst Mayr Chronology
- Ernst Mayr Bibliography
- MCZ Reading List
- New England Naturalists
Biodiversity & Conservation
- American Society of International Law: International Environmental Law Interest Group
- Anchialine Caves & Cave Fauna of the World
- An Age: Animal Aging and Longevity Database
- Animal Diversity Web (University of Michigan)
- Animal Genome Size Data
- Arctic Refuge Coastal Plain Terrestrial Wildlife Research Summaries
- Belgian Federal Science Policy: The Belgian Biodiversity Platform
- Biocomplexity Thesaurus
- Biodiversity (1988) by E.O. Wilson, fulltext available at National Academy Press
- Biodiversity & Conservation Research (AMNH)
- Biodiversity & WorldMap
- Biological Terms: UCMP Glossary
- Bioluminescence Web Page
- California’s plants and animals
- Catalogue of Life
- Center for Biological Diversity
- Centre for Marine Biodiversity
- Chesapeake Bay Program
- Mapping the National Parks (Library of Congress)
- Conservation International: Biodiversity Hotspots
- Earth Trends: The Environmental Portal (World Resources Institute)
- Eco-Index (US Fish & Wildlife Service)
- Electronic Zoo
- ehormone: Your Gateway to the Environment & Hormones
- Endangered Species Program: US Fish & Wildlife Service
- Endangered Species Recovery Program (Stanislaus): California State University
- Environment Directory
- Environment Australia’s Biodiversity Clearing-house Mechanism
- Environment Australia’s Online Image Database
- EUNIS European Nature Information System
- European Commission-MICROMAT: Biodiversity of Microbial Mats in Antarctica
- Explore Biodiversity
- Flora & Fauna of the Great Lakes Region: A Multimedia Digital Collection
- Global Biodiversity Outlook: Convention on Biological Diversity
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
- Global Methodology for Mapping Human Impacts on the Environment
- InfoNatura: Birds and Mammals of Latin America
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
- International Wildlife Traffic
- Invasive and Exotic Species of North America
- National Biodiversity Network Gateway
- National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)
- National Coastal Condition Report
- National Museum of Natural Sciences: Fauna IbErica
- Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility
- Rapid Biological Inventories
- SciDev.net
- Skulls
- Tree of Life
- USGS Biological Resources: Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center
- Virtual library of Ecology and Biodiversity
- VivaNatura Illustrated Database of Mexican Biodiversity
- Whose tadpole is it? The waterproof field guide to Central European Amphibians
- World Atlas of Biodiversity
- World Information Network on Biodiversity
- World Wildlife Fund International: Species Programme
- ZOOLOGY: On-Line Books Page
Entomology
- Antbase:The Social Insects Web
- AntWeb
- Australian Insect Common Names (CSIRO)
- Beetles (Coleoptera) and Coleopterists (Russian Academy of Sciences-Zoological Institute)
- Butterflies & Moths of the World (Natural History Museum, London)
- Butterflies of North America
- Caribbean Insects @ Harvard Entomology
- Caterpillar Hostplants Database
- Chalcidoidea: Universal Database
- Cockayne database-British & Irish Butterflies & Moths part 1: Butterflies (Natural History Museum of London)
- Coleoptera: Electronic resources
- Coleopterists Society
- Common Names of Insects in Canada (Entomology Society of Canada)
- Digital Dragonflies
- Diptera Families
- Diptera of the Australasian & Oceanian Regions (Bishop Museum)
- Diptera Site: The Biosystematic Database of World Diptera
- English Names of North American Butterflies Occuring North of Mexico
- Entomological Society of America
- Entomology Image Gallery (Iowa State University)
- Entomology index of internet resources (Iowa State)
- Field Museum: PEET-Austral Staphylinidae
- Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology Department of Entomology
- Figs & Fig Wasps: Iziko Museums of Capetown
- Fleas (Siphonaptera)
- Florida State Collection of Arthropods - Museum of Entomology
- Global Crop Pests Identification and Information
- Hymenoptera OnLine Database
- Insect Answers
- International Bee Research Association
- Lepidoptera: Electronic resources
- Lepidoptera Names Index: Natural History Museum of London
- Mantophasmatodea
- Mayfly Central
- MCZ Type Database @ Harvard Entomology
- Mecoptera: World Checklist
- Mosquito Biology: Rutgers University
- Odonata Central - worldwide
- Odonata of North America (University of Puget Sound)
- Odonata: List of Odonata of the World (University of Puget Sound)
- Orthoptera Species File Online
- Phasmatodea
- Phasmatodea
- Robber Flies (Asilidae)
- ScaleNet: Scale Insects (Coccoidea)
- Singing Insects of North America
- Tachinidae of America North of Mexico
- Termite Database
- UC Davis Department of Entomology: Background Information on the Biology of Ticks
- University of Florida Book of Insect Records
- Zoraptera Database (Florida A &M University
Herpetology
- American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
- Amphibia Web
- Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative: USGS
- Amphibian Species of the World (AMNH)
- Archie Carr Center for Sea Turtle Research
- Center for North American Herpetology
- Crocodilian Biology Database
- Crocodilians
- Crocodilians-CITES Identification Guide
- Crocodilians: Natural History & Conservation
- EMBL Reptile Database
- Global Amphibian Assessment
- Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology Department of Herpetology
- InfoNatura: Birds, Mammals and Amphibians of Latin America
- Phylogeny of Turtles
- Reptiles of Australia
- SSAR: Society for the Study of Amphibians & Reptiles
- Scientific & Common Names of Reptiles & Amphibians of North America
- Scientific & Standard English Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of North America
- Tadpoles of the United States & Canada
- Whose tadpole is it? The waterproof field guide to Central European Amphibians
- World Chelonian Trust
- World Turtle Database
Ichthyology
- Atlantic & Gulf Coast Local Fish Names
- Australian Museum Fish Site
- Bishop Museum: Hawaiian Fish Checklist
- Annotated Checklists of Fishes (California Academy of Sciences)
- Catalog of Fishes (California Academy of Sciences)
- Checklist of Living Sharks
- Desert Fishes Council
- Fishbase
- Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology Ichthyology
- Hopkins Marine Station/Monterey Bay Aquarium: Tuna Research & Conservation Center
- Ichthyology (Yale Peabody Museum)
- Ichthyology (Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County)
- List of Canadian Acceptable Common Names for Fish and Seafood
- Monkfish Research Survey
- Natural History Museum’s Fish Specimen Collection
- University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections: Salmon Collection
- Zebrafish Information Network
Invertebrate Zoology (Non-Insect)
- Amphipoda: Biodiversity Reference Centre for Antarctic Amphipod Crustaceans: Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences- Department of Invertebrates-
- Amoebae on the Web
- Annelid Resources
- Arachnology Home Page
- Common North American Spiders
- Conchologists of America
- Conchology: The Art & Science of Nature
- Copepod Web Portal
- Crustacea.net (Australian Museum)
- Ctenophora (University of Washington)
- Echinodermata: Classification of the Extant Echinodermata
- Echinoid Directory (Natural History Museum, London)
- Hardy’s Internet Guide to Marine Gastropods
- Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology Invertebrate Zoology
- International Society of Arachnology
- Mollusk Collection, Illinois Natural History Survey
- Scorpionida
- Scorpion Files
- World Spider Catalog
- WormBase
Mammalogy
- American Society of Mammalogists
- Animal Info: Information on Rare, Threatened, and Endangered Mammals
- Australian Platypus Conservancy
- Bat Conservation International, Inc.
- Bat Ecology & Acoustics Lab
- Bibliography of General Works in Mammalogy (1999)
- Cat Specialist Group
- Cetacean Assessment & Ecology Program
- Checklist of Australian Marsupials
- Checklist of the mammals of the Archbold Biological Station
- Comparative Mammalian Brain Collection
- Duke Lemur Center
- Environmental Enrichment for Primates: Annotated Database on Environmental Enrichment & Refinement of Husbandry for Nonhuman Primates
- Gibbon Conservation Center
- Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology Mammalogy
- Hunting Trophies (CITES identification guide)
- InfoNatura: Birds, Mammals and Amphibians of Latin America
- International Rhino Page
- International Wolf Center
- Large Carnivore Initiative of Europe
- Lemurs of Madagascar
- Mammal Species of the World
- Mammalian Species: American Society of Mammalogists
- Mammals of Texas, Online Edition, Texas Tech University
- Marine Mammal Center
- Marine Mammals of the world (annotated list)
- Marine mammals of the world (United Nations)
- MassWildlife’s State Mammal List
- Mouse Genome Informatics - Mammalian Orthology: Jackson Laboratories
- Phylogeny of the Mammals (UCMP)
- Primate Information Network
- RatMap: The Rat Genome Database
- Tigers (WWF)
- Tigers In Crisis
- Ultimate Ungulate Page: Your Guide to the World’s Hoofed Mammals
- Whale Research Lab
Marine & Freshwater Biology
- Biogeoinformatics of Hexacorallia
- Centre for Marine Biodiversity
- Census of Marine Life
- Conchology: The Art & Science of Nature
- Coral Reef Information System: Discover NOAA’s Data
- Crustacea.net (Australian Museum)
- Ctenophora (University of Washington)
- Echinoid Directory (Natural History Museum, London)
- European Register of Marine Species
- Freshwater & Marine Image Bank
- Gulf of Maine Research Institute: Atlantic Herring
- Hardy’s Internet Guide to Marine Gastropods
- Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology Malacology
- Holothuroidea-Sea Cucumbers (Tree of Life Web Project:)
- International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange
- MarineBio
- Marine Invertebrate Larvae: A Study in Morphological Diversity
- Marine Mammal Center
- Marine Mammals of the world (annotated list)
- Marine mammals of the world (United Nations)
- Mollusk Collection, Illinois Natural History Survey
- Mote Marine Laboratory
- National Association of Marine Laboratories
- National Coastal Condition Reports
- NOAA Ocean Explorer: Windows to the Deep
- Nonindigenous Aquatic Species
- OBIS: Ocean Biogeographic Information System
- Ocean Portal
- Oceanus
- Phosphorus uptake & growth kinetics in plankton desmid species from trophically different lakes
- River Corridor and Wetland Restoration EPA)
- Rutgers University: Institute of Marine & Coastal Sciences -Deep Sea Microbiology Lab
- Seafood List (United States Food & Drug Administration)
- Socioeconomic Manual for Coral Reef Management (IUCN)
- Stauromedusae: List of all Valid Species Names (University of Washington)
- UCSD-Sripps Institution of Oceanography Library: Diving Under Antarctic Ice
- UCSD-Scripps Institution of Oceanography: Marine Biology Research Division
Museums & Other Organizations
- Academy of Natural Sciences (Philadelphia)
- Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute
- American Institute of Biological Sciences
- American Museum of Natural History
- American Museum of Natural History Publications
- Animal Behavior Society Web Site
- Animal Diversity Web (University of Michigan)
- Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum: Programs & Research
- Association for Tropical Biology & Conservation
- Biocase: Biological Collection Access Service for Europe
- Burke Museum Department & Collections
- California Academy of Sciences
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): Biology
- Ecological Society of America
- Florida Museum of Natural History Zooarchaeology Comparative Databases
- Food & Agriculture Organization Virtual Library
- Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology
- Larvalbase
- Museum National D’histoire Naturelle
- National Zoo
- Natural History Museum of London
- Natural History Museum Collections (University of California Berkeley)
- Natural History Museums & Collections
- North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
- Occasional Papers of the Museum of Texas Tech University (some full text)
- Oxford University Museum of Natural History Collections
- Oxford University Museum of Natural History: Darwin Database
- Smithsonian Institution
- Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
- Society for Conservation Biology
- Society for Ecological Restoration International
- UK Natural Environment Research Council: Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
- US Fish & Wildlife Service
- Western Australian Museum: FaunaBase & WA FaunaList
- Wildlife Society
- Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory
- University of California-Berkeley: Museum of Vertebrate Zoology Data Access
Natural History & Evolution
- American Museum of Natural History Congo Expedition
- An Age: Animal Aging and Longevity Database
- Beartracker’s Animal Tracks Den
- Biology WorkBench
- Bioluminescence Web Page
- BioMedCentral
- 2can Bioinformatics
- BioVisa.net
- Conservation Almanac
- Complete Works of Charles Darwin
- Creationism Answers from Scientific American
- E-Anatomy - interactive atlas of human anatomy
- Environment Network (United Nations)
- Environmental Protection Agency: Ecosystems Research Division
- eSkeletons Project
- Fermilab Life Sciences Data
- Galapagos: Rochester Institute of Technology
- Genome Bioinformatics
- GOLD? Genomes OnLine Database
- Lefalophodon: An Informal History of Evolutionary Biology Web Site
- Longevity Records - life spans of animals from the Max Planck Institute
- Merck Veterinary Manual
- Mitochondrial Proteome
- Jackson Laboratory: The Mouse Genome Sequence Project
- Muscle Physiology
- National Academy Press
- National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
- National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent)
- National Geographic: WildWorld — Sights & Sounds
- Natural History Guide to American Samoa
- Natural History Museum Collections
- Natural History Notebooks
- Natural History: Online Books Page:
- Natural History Resources
- NatureServe Explorer
- New England Wildlife Center
- Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center USGS)
- Origin of Species
- PLoS Biology
- US Fish & Wildlife Service National Image Library
Ornithology
- Annotated list of shorebirds of the world
- Annotated list of seabirds of the world
- AOU Checklist of North American Birds
- AOU: American Ornithologists Union
- Aves 3D
- Aves: Systematics
- Avibase
- Bird Conservation
- Birds: CITES identification guide
- Birds of the Continental US and Canada
- Birds of the World current valid scientific avian names
- Boreal Songbird Initiative
- Checklists for Birds–states and provinces (Canada and US)
- Complete Morris’s British Birds 1891
- Cornell Lab of Ornithology: All About Birds
- Cornell Lab of Ornithology:Macaulay Library Archive of Animal Sounds
- Electronic Resources on Ornithology
- GooseRef Bibliography System
- Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology Ornithology
- InfoNatura: Birds, Mammals and Amphibians of Latin America
- Internet Bird Collection
- Marine Species Conservation: Seabirds
- Migrating Birds Know No Boundaries
- Migration Ecology: University of Lund, Sweden
- Migration of Birds (USGS)
- Migratory Pollinators Program
- Multilingual Birdsearch Engine
- Multilingual North European Bird Dictionary
- New Zealand Recognised Bird Names
- North American Bird Banding Program: Bird Banding Laboratory
- Obsolete English Names of North American Birds and their Equivalents (USGS)
- Owl Pages
- Owling
- Owls of the World–a list by name
- Patuxent Bird Population Studies
- Peregrine Fund: Research Library
- Raptor Center
- Raptor Resource Project: Raptor Recovery
- Searchable Ornithological Research Archive
- Sibley and Monroe’s World Checklist of Birds (1993)
- World Owl Trust
Paleontology: Invertebrate & Vertebrate
- Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates
- Fossil Flies: Catalogue of the fossil flies of the world (Bishop Museum)
- Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology Invertebrate Paleontology
- Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology Vertebrate Paleontology
- New Trilobites
- Paleobiology Database
- Palaeos: The Trace of Life on Earth
- Paleontological Research Institute
- Trilobites: Guide to the Orders of Trilobites
- University of California, Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology
Systematics & Taxonomy
- All Species Toolkit
- BEAST: Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis Sampling Trees
- Biological Information Browsing Environment (BIBE)
- CBOL: Consortium for the Barcode of Life
- Center for Systematic Biology and Evolution (Academy of Natural Sciences)
- E-Type Initiative @ Harvard Entomology
- European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy
- Global Taxonomy Initiative
- ITIS: Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
- International Plant Name Index
- NBII - National Biological Information Infrastructure
- NCBI Taxonomy Homepage
- Phylogeny of Life
- Taxon Lift (UCMP)
- Taxonomic Databases Working Group
- Tree of Life
- TreeBase: A Database of Phylogenetic Knowledge
- Universal Biological Indexer and Organizer
- Wikispecies
- World Taxonomist Database
- ZipcodeZoo
- ZooBank