Catalogue of Life

The Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life
Type of site
Taxonomic catalogue
Available inEnglish
URLwww.catalogueoflife.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationNot required
LaunchedJune 2001; 25 years ago (2001-06)
Current statusActive

The Catalogue of Life (CoL) is an online database. This database has all of the known species of animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms. It was created in 2001. It combined the Species 2000 and the American Integrated Taxonomic Information System. The Catalogue is used by scientists, educators, and policy makers. The Catalogue is also used by the Biodiversity Heritage Library, the Barcode of Life Data System, Encyclopedia of Life, and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. The Catalogue uses data from 165 other peer-reviewed databases. As of September 2022, the COL Checklist has 2,067,951 of the world's 2.2m species that taxonomists know about.

References

  1. ↑ Harmon, Joanie (2 December 2016). "Animal, vegetable, data: Exploring the online 'Catalogue of Life'". UCLA News Room. Archived from the original on 24 June 2018. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
  2. ↑ Bánki, Olaf; Döring, Markus; Holleman, Ayco; Addink, Wouter (2018). "Catalogue of Life Plus: Innovating the CoL systems as a foundation for a clearinghouse for names and taxonomy". Biodiversity Information Science and Standards. 2 e26922. Bibcode:2018BISS....226922B. doi:10.3897/biss.2.26922.
  3. ↑ "COL". Archived from the original on 14 June 2021. Retrieved 12 June 2021.

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