Catalogue of Life: 2008 Annual Checklist

The Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life is planned to become a comprehensive catalogue of all known species of organisms on Earth by the year 2011. The Annual Checklist is published each year as a fixed edition that can be cited and used as a common catalogue for comparative purposes by many organisations.

The present Catalogue is compiled with sectors provided by 52 taxonomic databases from around the world. Many of these contain taxonomic data and opinions from extensive networks of specialists, so that the complete work contains contributions from more than 3,000 specialists from throughout the taxonomic profession. Species 2000 and ITIS teams peer review databases, select appropriate sectors and integrate the sectors into a single coherent catalogue with a single hierarchical classification.

Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: Dynamic Checklist
The Dynamic Checklist is a virtual catalogue operated on the Internet and available both for users and as an electronic web-service at http://www.catalogueoflife.org/dynamic-checklist/search.php The Dynamic Checklist harvests taxonomic sectors and associated strands of hierarchical classification dynamically from the source databases across the internet. The Dynamic Checklist is presently less extensive than the Annual Checklist because fewer taxonomic sectors have been connected so far.

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