Species 2000 is an autonomous federation of taxonomic database custodians, involving taxonomists throughout the world. Our goal is to collate a uniform and validated index to the world's known species (plants, animals, fungi and microbes). Species 2000 is registered as a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee (registered in England No. 3479405)
Species 2000 began as a joint programme between CODATA (International Council for Science: Committee on Data for Science and Technology), IUBS (International Union of Biological Sciences) and the IUMS (International Union of Microbiological Societies) in the early 1990's. In 1996 eighteen taxonomic database organisations agreed to convert Species 2000 into a legal entity as the vehicle for developing the global Species 2000 programme. It is an associate participant in the Global Biodiversity Information
Species 2000 has a distributed Secretariat: the administrative office and staff are hosted and sponsored by Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands, the Editorial Office is hosted and sponsored by the Illinois Natural History Survey in the USA, and the Data managers are hosted by FIN (the FishBase Information and Research Group, Inc.) in the Philippines.
Integrated Taxonomic Information System
COL | The Catalogue of Life
Systema Dipterorum
Series Temporales de Oceanografía en el Norte de España
JACQ - Virtual Herbaria
－ 中国植物科学门户平台 －
SPECIES ACCOUNTS
COL | The Catalogue of Life
COL | The Catalogue of Life