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May 20, 2024 · COL is a comprehensive and authoritative database of the world's species, maintained by hundreds of taxonomists. You can search, browse and download information on any taxon, including extinct and unranked ones.
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The data in the current version 2024-05-20 of the COL...
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The Catalogue of Life is an online database that provides an index of known species of animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms. It was created in 2001 as a partnership between the global Species 2000 and the American Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
Catalogue of Life (COL) is an international collaboration that provides a consistent and up-to-date listing of all the world’s known species and their scientific names. COL also supports taxonomists and other stakeholders to publish and revise species lists for any purpose.
May 20, 2024 · Browse the Catalogue of Life Checklist to find and access any species name known to COL. Use the tree to explore the full classification from the current version 2024-04-26 of the COL Checklist.
The Species 2000 and Integrated Taxonomic Information System ( ITIS) product, the Catalogue of Life is the most comprehensive and authoritative global index of species currently available. It consists of a single integrated species checklist and taxonomic hierarchy.
Over the past two decades, Catalogue of Life (COL) has aimed to deliver a species index of all life on earth, based on a consensus classification (Bánki et al. 2022). This index has now reached more than 2 million accepted species names, underpinned by a network of more than 500 experts (Costello et al. 2022).
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Catalogue of Life (COL) COL aims to address the needs of researchers, policy-makers, environmental managers and the wider public for a consistent and up-to-date listing of all the world’s known species.