BiGCB Species Lists: Taxonomy Sources and Practices

Sources for Higher Taxonomy

ITIS plants, animals, fungi, and microbes http://www.itis.gov/

Vertebrates

• Amphibians: Amphibiaweb: http://amphibiaweb.org/
• Birds: American Ornithologists' Union Checklist of North and Middle American Birds http://checklist.aou.org/taxa/
• Fish: Fishweb: http://fishbase.org/search.php
• Mammals: MVZ: http://arctos.database.museum/TaxonomySearch.cfm

Invertebrates

• Ants: Antweb: http://www.antweb.org/
• Aquatic Invertebrates: SAFIT List: http://www.safit.org/ste.html
• Bees, Snails & Slugs, Thysanura, etc.: ITIS http://www.itis.gov/
• Butterflies and Moths: LepIndex http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/research/projects/lepindex/
• Spiders: World Spider Catalog http://research.amnh.org/oonopidae/catalog/
• Tapeworms: Global Cestode Database: http://tapewormdb.uconn.edu/

Plants

• Plants: USDA Plants Database: http://plants.usda.gov/search_tips.html (Search box at top of left-hand menu)

Fungi

• CABI: Species Fungorum http://www.speciesfungorum.org/Names/Names.asp
• MycoBank: http://www.mycobank.org

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Guidelines for Entering Taxonomy for a Species List

Note: in all cases below, the original name should be entered as-is into the "Verbatim Taxa" field.

Complex

Example: "Leptothorax sp., muscorum complex"

Genus: Leptothorax
Species: muscorum complex

Groups

Example: "Rhagoletis (pomonella group)"

Genus: Rhagoletis
Species: (pomonella group)

or

Genus: Aphis
Subgenus: (jacobaeae group)
Species: sp. 

Hybrids

Example: "Carabus odoratus X arvensis"

Genus: Carabus
Subgenus:
Species: odoratus X arvensis 

Morphospecies

Example: "Formica sp. CA-01"

Genus: Formica
Species: sp. CA-01

Uncertain Taxa

Example 1: "Formica cf. sibylla"

Genus: Formica
Species: sibylla
TaxonCertainty: cf.

Example 2: "Sus (domestica?, some boar genes also)"

Genus: Sus
Species: domestica
Taxon Certainty: ?