http://www.bioimages.org.uk/
Welcome to BioImages, the Virtual Field-Guide to UK Biodiversity.
Content: This site offers a large selection of pictures of Natural History objects, mostly British in origin.
Purpose: The images are presented to illustrate biodiversity and as an aid to identification. While pictures alone are generally NOT sufficient for identification, by showing different stages, states and views of the organisms more information can be offered than is available in printed field-guides.
How to find your way around: BioImages follows the biological classification. This is a hierarchical system with species grouped in genera, genera in families, families in orders and so on up to kingdoms and superkingdoms. Biota takes you to the top of the classification tree.
Searching: BioImages is indexed by Google (you can enter English or Latin names, or life stage or part - eg "caterpillar", "pollen", "trichome"). Display results as text:
Browsing: If you just want to browse, Shortcuts takes you to a list of links to groups of organisms. You can then go directly to the group your are interested in. Then follow the links down to the species you want to see.
On the left of each page in the classification hierarchy is a column of links to take you back up the hierarchy. Using these and the subtaxon links in the body of the page you can navigate sideways.
This is a large site containing (May 07) more than 58,000 images depicting over 4,800 species. The images include habitat shots, close-ups, macro shots and microscopy. Enjoy!
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