PLANT/ANIMAL/FUNGI/TAXONOMY AIDS

BIOLOGY:
TAXONOMY RESOURCES
Compiled by E. Heaser

Resources on kingdom, phylum, order, family, genus, species, sub species, to the phyla of the earth.
Contents:	General Animalia Bacteria Fungi Plantae Protocotista	Viruses Journals Indexes to Journal Literature Search Engines Library Home Page

EUREKA (Library Online Catalog) Use Keyword(s) to search EUREKA for books on a specific order, family or genus.

GENERAL Biology Browser from Thomson Reuters http://www.biologybrowser.com/ Biosis Search Guide. Index Area 2 North QHZ 13.3 B53 2001-2003 Encyclopedia of Life http://www.eol.org/ Five Kingdoms: An Illustrated Guide to the Phyla of Life on Earth. ref QH 83 M36 1998 Henderson’s Dictionary of Biological Terms. 11th ed. ref QH 302.5 H65 1995 IT IS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System - all 5 kingdoms) http://www.itis.gov/ Montgomery College Library/Guide to Internet Sources of Biological Taxonomy & Classification http://mclibrary.nhmccd.edu/taxonomy/taxonomy.html The Official World Wildlife Fund Guide to Endangered Species of North America. v. 1-4. Includes animals and plants. ref QL 84.2 O35 1990 Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. (1982) v.1-2. ref QH 83 S89 Tree of Life project at the Univ. of Arizona http://tolweb.org/tree/
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ANIMALIA Beacham’s Guide to International Endangered Species. ref QL 82 B435 1998 v. 1-2 The Bees of the World. ref QL 566 M53 2000 The Bird Almanac: The Ultimate Guide to Essential Facts & Figures of the World's Birds ref QL 673 B565 1999 Birds of North America: Life Histories for the 21st Century ref QL 681 B625 v.1-date; 1992-date Check-list of North American Birds: The Species of Birds of North America from the Arctic through Panama, Including the West Indies and Hawaiian Islands, 6th ed. ref QL 677 A5 1983 A Classification of Living Animals. ref QL 352 R6 Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. ref QL 708 M38 1997 Common and Scientific Names of Aquatic Invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks 2nd ed. ref QL 411 C65 1998 Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States,Canada and Mexico, 6th ed. ref QL 618 C66 2004 Common Names of Mammals of the World. ref QL 708 W45 2000 Dolphins, Porpoises and Whales of the World: The IUCN Red Data Book. ref QL 737 C4 K54 1991 Encyclopedia of Mammals. ref QL 703 E53 2001 v. 1-3 Endangered Wildlife of the World. ref QL 83 E55 1993 v. 1-11 European Register of Marine Species http://www.marbef.org/ A Field Guide to Insects of America North of Mexico. ref QL 464 B65 Fishes of the World. 3rd ed. ref QL 618 N4 1994 Guide to Marine Mammals of the World. ref QL 713.2 N37 2002 How to Know the Beetles. 2nd ed. ref QL 583 J3 1980 The IUCN Amphibia-Reptilia Red Data Book. Part 1: Testudines, Crocodylia, Rhynchocephalia. ref QL 88 I68 1982 v.1 Light’s Manual: Intertidal Invertebrates of the Central California Coast. ref QL 164 L53 1989 Mammal Species of the World http://www.nmnh.si.edu/msw Mammalian Species http://www.science.smith.edu/departments/Biology/VHAYSSEN/msi/ Mammalian Species. no. 1/1969 - date. ref QL 700 A4 Marine Invertebrates of the Pacific Northwest. ref QL 138 K68 1987 Marine Mammals of the World: Systematics and Distribution. ref QL 713.2 R515 1998 New International Wildlife Encyclopedia. ref QL 9 B8 1980 v.1- 21 Nomenclator Zoologicus: A list of the Names of Genera & Subgenera in Zoology from the Tenth Edition of Linnaeus 1758 to the end of 1935 & supplements through 1965. ref QL 345 N4 v.1-7 [1939-1975] Orders and Families of Recent Mammals of the World. ref QL 703 O73 1984 Primate Taxonomy. ref Ql 737 P9 G86 2001Sealife: A Complete Guide to the Marine Environment. ref QL 121 s43 1996 Spiders of the World. ref QL 452 P72 1993 Walker’s Bats of the World. ref QL 737 C5 N69 1994 Walker’s Mammals of the World. 6th ed. ref QL 703 N68 1999 v.1-2 Walker's Marine Mammals of the World. ref QL 713.2 N69 2003 Walker’s Primates of the World. ref QL 737 P9 N66 1999 A World List of Mammalian Species 3rd ed. ref QL 708 C67 1991 WoRMS/World Register of Marine Species http://www.marinespecies.org/ Zoological Record Search Guide. Index Area 2 North QL Z 7991 Z6 1978-97 vol.115-133 Zoological Record: Section 20. List of New Taxonomic Names. Index Area 2 North QL Z 7991 Z87 Zoological Record/Systematic Hierarchy http://www.biosis.org/support/zr-thesaurus/sys-current/
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BACTERIA:(PROKARYOTAE, PROCARYOTAE, MONERA) Approved Lists of Bacterial Names. Amended Edition ref QR 81 A77 1989 The Archaea and the Deeply Branching & Phototropic Bacteria, 2nd ed. ref QR 81 B46 2001 v.1 Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. ref QR 81 B46 1984 v.1-4 Desk Encyclopedia of Microbiology. ref QR 9 D47 2004 Encyclopedia of Microbiology, 2nd rd. ref QR 9 E53 2000 v.1-4 Handbook of Microbiology. ref QR 41 J12 (1960) Index of the Bacterial and Yeast Nomenclatural Changes. ref QR 81 M672 1992 NCBI Taxonomy Homepage Contains the names of all organisms that are represented in the genetic databases with at least one nucleotide or protein sequence http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/taxonomyhome.html Supplement to Index Bergeyana. ref QR 81 I5 Supp
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FUNGI: (Mycota: 2 divisions Myxomycota & Eumycota) also: Plantae (classed there before) (Bread moulds, yeasts, mushrooms, toadstools, lichens) Catalogus Lichenum Universalis. ref QK 583 Z3 1940 v.1-10 Dictionary of the Fungi, 9th Ed. ref Qk 600.35 A35 2001 European Bioinformatics Institute, EMBL-EBI http://www.ebi.ac.uk/interpro/ISpy?ipr=IPR008271&filter=taxonomy&sort=tax&taxon=Fungi The Fungi: an Advanced Treatise. QK 603 A52 v.1-4 B Illustrated Dictionary of Mycology. ref QK 600.35 U4313 2000 Yeasts: Characteristics and Identification. QK 617.5 B39 1983
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PLANTAE Carnivorous Plants: Care & Cultivation. ref SB 432.7 L43 1990 Chemotaxonomy of Flowering Plants. ref QK 95 G46 v.1-4. [1974] Family Names in Current Use for Vascular Plants, Bryophytes, and Fungi, NCU-7. ref QK 96 F35 1993 Grays Manual of Botany. ref QK 117 G75 1988 A California Flora. ref QK 149 M79 Flora of Southern California. ref QK 149 M795 Illustrated Encyclopedia of Trees. ref QK 747.87 M67 2003 Illustrated Flora of the Pacific States: Washington, Oregon, and California. ref QK 143 A3 v.1-4 Index Kewensis: An Enumeration of the Genera and Species of Flowering Plants [Linnaeus to the year 1885]. ref QK 11 I4 v.1-2, Supp. 1-16. International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (Tokyo Code). ref QK 96 I584 1994 Jackson Creek Middle School-Plants & Classification http://www.mccsc.edu/~kmcglaun/bacteria/btop.htm The Jepson Desert Manuel: Vascular Plants of Southeastern California ref QK 149 J58 2002 The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California. ref QK 149 J56 1993 Manual of Woody Landscape Plants: Their Identification, Ornamental Characteristics, Culture, Propagation and Use, 5th ed. ref SB 435.5 D57 1998 Names in Current Use for Extant Plant Genera, NCU-3. ref QK 96 N35 1993 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. ref QK 86 A1 I936 1997 Repertorium Plantarum Succulentarum. QK 96 R4 v.1-14,16,20-22 1950- Trees & Shrubs of California. ref QK 149 S73 2001 Vascular Plant Families and Genera. ref QK 97 V33 1992 Water Plants of the World. ref QK 105 W37 [1974] Weeds of the West. ref SB 612 W4 W4 1999 Western Weeds: Additions, Deletions & Name Changes http://members.iinet.net.au/~weeds/ww_update.pdf
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PROTOCOTISTA (PROTISTA) also: Plantae (classed there until recently) (Algae, water moulds, diatoms, slime moulds & protozoa [also classed in the animal kingdom]) Classification of Algae: Where Do They Fit In? http://www.botany.uwc.ac.za/algae/StudentAssignments/JanusGoulding96/ Marine Algae of California. ref QK 571.5 C2 M37 Names of Classes and Families of Living Algae. QK 567 S45 [1980] Protists Information Server http://protist.i.hosei.ac.jp/Protist_menuE.html
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VIRUSES (Since viruses do not have cells they are not included in the five kingdoms listed above,whose members do possess cells) Classification and Nomenclature of Viruses. Monographs in Virology, v.5. ref QR 360 I415 [1971] A Classification of the Major Groups of Human and Other Animal Viruses. 4th ed. ref QR 360 W52 1969 Encyclopedia Of Virology, 2nd ed. ref QR 358 E53 1999 v.1-3 International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ICTVdb/Images/ Virus and Rickettsial Classification and Nomenclature. Q 11 N5 v.56 art.3 Virus Taxonomy Online http://www.virustaxonomyonline.com The Viruses: Catalogue, Characterization, and Classification. ref QR 394 F73 1985
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JOURNALS Systematic Biology (v.41:1 1992 May-current) (Society of Systematic Biologists) Formerly Systematic Zoology Systematic Zoology (v.1-40, 1952-1991) (Society of Systematic Zoologists) Taxon (v. 1-44. 1951-1995) (Journal of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy)
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INDEXES TO JOURNAL LITERATURE Paper Biological & Agricultural Index. (1931-32;1945-1999) Index Area 2 North & Lower Level. SZ 5073 A46. Biological Abstracts. (1926 - 1995) Index Area 2 North & Lower Level. QH 301 B37 Zoological Record. (1870-current) Index Area 2 North. QLZ 7991 .Z87 Electronic Indexes Unless noted otherwise; electronic indexes are restricted to CSUS students, faculty, and staff. Instructions for off-campus access are available at Off-Campus Access to Library E-Resources. Biological Abstracts (1969-current) Over 4,000 journals covering life science and biomedical research Biological & Agricultural Index (EBSCO) (1983-current) Biological & Agricultural Index Ingenta (1989-current) General interest and science database Full-text can be purchased ScienceDirect (current 5 or 6 years) Full text of 1,700 plus journals Wiley InterScience (1996-current) Full text of 300 plus journals
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