Links
In this section you can find links to our collaborators, societies and organizations, collections and directories, databases, software, mapping, and other.
Collaborations
ARC-Plant Protection Research Institute, National Collection of Arachnida
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research, Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology
California Academy of Sciences, Department of Entomology
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History
Charles University, Faculty of Science
City University of New York, Biology Program
Cornell University, Department of Entomology
Columbia University, Earth Institute Center for Environmental Sustainability
Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Department of Zoology
East Carolina University, Department of Biology
Ege Universitesi, Fen Fakultesi
Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, Allgemeine und Systematische Zoologie
Field Museum of Natural History, Division of Insects
George Washington University, Department of Biological Sciences
Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Department of Invertebrate Zoology
Hebei University, College of Life Sciences
Institute of Ecology and Systematics, Havana, Cuba
Institut für Systematische Zoologie, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Institute of Zoology, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Instituto Miguel Lillo, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán
International Center of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Environmental Health Division
Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales
National Museum of Namibia, National Collection of Arachnids and Myriapods
National Museum, Bloemfontein, Arachnology Department
National Museums Kenya, Department of Invertebrate Zoology
New York University, Department of Biology
Niğde University, Department of Biology
Queensland Museum, Centre for Biodiversity
Razi Reference Lab, Razi Vaccine and Serum Research Institute, Karaj, Iran
Research Centre for Tropical Medicine, Ahvaz Jundishapour Medical Sciences University
San Diego State University, Department of Biology
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Entomology
South African Reptile Conservation Assessment
Spider Club of Southern Africa
Tel Aviv University, Department of Zoology, National Collection of Arthropods
Texas A&M University, Department of Entomology
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Cátedra de Diversidad Animal I
Universidad Nacional de Salta, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales
Universidad de La Serena, Departamento de Biología
Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Departament de BABViE
University of British Columbia, Department of Zoology
University of California, Riverside, Department of Biology
University of Cape Town, Biological Sciences, Animal Demography Unit
University of Cape Town, Percy FitzPatrick Institute
University of Copenhagen, Zoological Museum, Entomology Department
University of Rostock, Institut für Biowissenschaften, Allgemeine & Spezielle Zoologie
West Texas A&M University, Department of Earth, Life and Environmental Sciences
Western Australian Museum, Department of Terrestrial Invertebrates
Societies and Organizations
African Arachnological Society
American Arachnological Society
Australasian Arachnological Society
Australian Biological Resources Study
British Arachnological Society
The Business and Biodiversity Resource Centre
Centre International de Myriapodologie (International Society of Myriapodology and Onychophorology)
Comisión Nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO)
Convention on Biological Diversity
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
Desert Research Foundation of Namibia
European Society of Arachnology
Entomological Society of America
Entomological Society of Southern Africa
Entomological Society of Southern Africa, Biosystematics Interest Group
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Global Environment Facility (GEF)
International Society for Environmental Ethics
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature
International Society of Arachnology
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
National Geographic Society Committee for Research and Exploration
National Research Foundation, South Africa
National Science Foundation, U.S.A., Directorate for Biological Sciences
Natural Science Collections Alliance (formerly Association of Systematics Collections)
New York Entomological Society
Sociedad Mexicana de Entomologia
Society for Conservation Biology
Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections
Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE)
Society of Australian Systematic Biologists (SASB)
Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB)
Species Survival Commission, IUCN
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, International Affairs
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)
Zoological Society of Southern Africa
Collections and Directories
Albany Museum, Department of Entomology
American Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Type Specimens
Ambrose Monell Collection for Molecular and Microbial Research, AMNH
Amphibian Species of the World Museum Abbreviations
ARC-Plant Protection Research Institute, National Collection of Arachnida
Association for Tropical Lepidoptera, Museum Address List
Australian National Insect Collection (ANIC)
Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Department of Entomology
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California Academy of Sciences, Department of Entomology
Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes
Comisión Nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO), Mexico, Scientific Collections
Council of Heads of Australian Entomological Collections (CHAEC)
Ditsong Museums of South Africa (formerly the Transvaal Museum), Department of Invertebrates
Field Museum of Natural History, Division of Insects
Göteborgs Naturhistorika Museum
Insect and Spider Collections of the World
Insects and Entomological Resources
Institut für Systematische Zoologie, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Laboratório de Artrópodes
Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Iowa State Entomology Index: Insect Collections
Iziko Museums of South Africa, Department of Entomology
KwaZulu-Natal Museum, Collections - Arthropoda
McGregor Museum, Department of Zoology
Musée d'Histoire Naturelle, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales
Museu Nacional Rio de Janeiro, Departamento de Invertebrados, Arachnology
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de la Ville de Genève
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, Collections
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard, Department of Invertebrate Zoology
Museum of Entomology, Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Gainesville
Biological Museum, Lund University
National Biodiversity Institute (INBio), Costa Rica
National Museum of Namibia, National Collection of Arachnids and Myriapods
National Museum, Bloemfontein, Arachnology Department
Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe
Natural History Museums and Collections
Naturalis, Biodiversity Center, Leiden
Polar Museums Directory, The Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI), University of Cambridge
Queensland Museum, Centre for Biodiversity
Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Section Invertebrates non-insects
Smithsonian Institution (US National Museum of Natural History), Department of Entomology
South Australian Museum, Department of Invertebrates
Swedish Museum of Natural History, Department of Entomology
The Natural History Museum, London, Arachnid Collections
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Cátedra de Diversidad Animal I
Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brasil, Núcleo Regional de Ofiologia e Animais Peçonhentos da Bahia
Universidade de São Paulo, Museu de Zoologia
University of California, Davis, Department of Entomology and Nematology
Western Australian Museum, Department of Terrestrial Invertebrates
Zoological Museum Amsterdam, Section of Entomology
Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, Entomology Department
Zoologische Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig
Zoologisches Museum, Universität Hamburg, Entomologie
Databases
Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
AToL: Assembling the Tree of Life, Phylogeny of Spiders
Common Access to Biological Resources and Information (CABRI) Consortium
Consortium for the Barcode of Life
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
GrantForward (formerly Illinois Research Information Service (IRIS)) Funding Database
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
Iowa State Entomology Index, Databases
Pseudoscorpions and Minor Arachnids of the World
Shared Information of Genetic Resources (SHIGEN)
The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online
Treaty Database, American Society of International Law (ASIL), Wildlife Interest Group
Software
Biodiversity and Biological Collections Software
BIOTA: The Biodiversity Database Manager
Digital Taxonomy: A Web Resource for Open Source Biodiversity Informatics
Freezerworks, Dataworks Development, Inc.
Iowa State Entomology Index of Internet Resources
Specify: Biodiversity Collections Management
Morphology and Imaging Hardware and Software
Integrated Morphometrics Package (IMP)
Morphometrics at SUNY Stony Brook
Phylogenetics Software
Evolutionary Biology Group: Software, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
Felsenstein's list of Phylogeny Programs
Goloboff's programs for cladistics and biogeography
Indiana University archive of Molecular Biology Software (IUBio): link 1
Molecular Evolution, Phylogenetics and Epidemiology Research Group: Software
POY (Phylogeny Reconstruction via Optimization of DNA and other Data)
Rod Page's software programs and list
softlinks: Kolokotronis' list of Evolutionary Genetics Programs
Mapping
GIS, Gazetteers, Mapping, etc.
American Museum of Natural History Research Library Resources
Columbia Gazetteer of the World
CONABIO: Metadata and Cartography Online
European Commission Joint Research Centre Digital Atlas
GEOLocate, Georeferencing Software for Natural History Collections
GEONet Names server, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online
Global Change Master Directory
GTOPO elevation data ('DEM' files of the world)
Instituto Nacional de Estadística Geografía e Informática (INEGI), Mexico
Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Centre
MaNIS/HerpNet/ORNIS Georeferencing Guidelines
National Centers for Environmental Information, NOAA Satellite and Information Service
Perry Castañeda Library Map Collection
Perry Castañeda Library Map Collection, Maps on other Web Sites
Principles of Data Quality, GBIF
Remote Sensing Guides and Interactives, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, AMNH
Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Natural History Atlases, Gazetteers, GIS and Maps
Ultimate Directory of Geography Resources
University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) Time Periods
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Library
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS)
U.S. Naval Observatory, Complete Sun and Moon data
Molecular Biology
Molecular Biology Websites, Products and Services
Ambrose Monell Collection for Molecular and Microbial Research, AMNH
ASTM International, Annual Book of ASTM Standards
Bioinformatics and Biological Computing, Weizmann Institute of Science
BioSupplyNet, Searching for Scientific Supplies
BioTechniques Molecular Biology Techniques Forums
Center for Anchored Phylogenomics
Common Access to Biological Resources and Information (CABRI) Consortium
Consortium for the Barcode of Life
International Air Transport Association (IATA), Dangerous Goods Regulations Manual
Mobyle @ Pasteur Institute
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
Protein Extraction, Description, and Analysis Tool (PEDANT)
Sequencher, Gene Codes Corp.