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  • Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Backbone Taxonomy

    • Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

    • The GBIF Backbone Taxonomy is a single, synthetic management classification with the goal of covering all names GBIF is dealing with. It's the taxonomic backbone that allows GBIF to integrate name based information from different resources, no matter if these are occurrence datasets, species pages, names from nomenclators or external sources like EOL, Genbank or IUCN. This backbone allows taxonomic search, browse and reporting operations across all those resources in a consistent way and to provide means to crosswalk names from one source to another.
      See also: GBIF Introduces New Version of the Backbone Taxonomy (Sep 9, 2019). The new version of the taxonomy adds approximately 725,000 names, around 85 per cent of them animals. The update also adds 100,000 accepted species names not previously included in the backbone.

  • World Flora Online (WFO) Plant List

    • World Flora Online.

    • The WFO Plant List is the most comprehensive and authoritative list of the world’s vascular plants (flowering plants, conifers, ferns and their allies) and bryophytes (mosses, hornworts and liverworts), maintained by the global community of taxonomic experts as a free and open access resource. The WFO Plant List was launched in May 2021 as a next generation replacement for The Plant List (not updated since 2013), recognizing the continuing need for a user-friendly, citable static list of all plant species.