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World Biodiversity Database
URL: http://www.eti.uva.nl/Database/WBD.html

Description:
"A continuously growing taxonomic database and information system that aims at documenting all presently known species (about 1.7 million)." It "contains taxonomic information (hierarchies), species names, synonyms, descriptions, illustrations and literature references when available...link[s] provide genetic information on protein sequence, nucleic sequence and 3D structures for each taxon." No pictures.

Publisher:
Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification (ETI)

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Biological diversity
Biology -- Classification
Species -- Registers

LII Database Information:
Record 7761 created by Dana Lubow on 08/19/2002
Last modification on 08/20/2002
Published: 08/19/2002  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/7761