Catalogue of Life
Type of site | Taxonomic catalogue |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| URL | www |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Not required |
| Launched | June 2001 |
| Current status | Active |
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.[1] 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.[2] The Catalogue uses data from 165 other peer-reviewed databases. As of September 2022,[update] the COL Checklist has 2,067,951[3] of the world's 2.2m species that taxonomists know about.
Related pages
[change | change source]- ARKive
- Encyclopedia of Life
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- Wikispecies
References
[change | change source]- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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. doi:10.3897/biss.2.26922.
- ↑ "COL". Archived from the original on 14 June 2021. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
Further reading
[change | change source]- Blundell N (2005). There's more to life on Earth. Telegraph Online, 8 Dec 2005 (retrieved 2012-05-03).
Other websites
[change | change source]- Catalogue of Life: historical checklist downloads
- 2022 Annual Checklist, 2,065,448 species – https://doi.org/10.48580/dfq8
- 2021 Annual Checklist, 2,008,947 species – https://doi.org/10.48580/dfq8
- 2019 Annual Checklist, 1,900,983 species (incl. 63,418 extinct species)
- 2018 Annual Checklist, 1,803,488 species (incl. 59,284 extinct species)
- 2017 Annual Checklist, 1,713,852 species (incl. 49,346 extinct species)
- 2016 Annual Checklist, 1,640,969 species
- 2015 Annual Checklist, 1,606,554 species
- 2014 Annual Checklist, 1,578,063 species
- 2013 Annual Checklist, 1,352,112 species
- 2012 Annual Checklist, 1,404,038 species
- 2011 Annual Checklist, 1,347,224 species
- 2010 Annual Checklist, 1,257,735 species
- 2009 Annual Checklist, 1,160,711 species
- 2008 Annual Checklist, 1,105,589 species
- 2007 Annual Checklist, 1,008,965 species
- 2006 Annual Checklist, 884,552 species
- 2005 Annual Checklist, 526,323 species
- A list of contributing databases