BIOTA
(living things)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa
No of
images
No of
ID refs
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Domain 45 subtaxa 299 images 54 ident. refs
Male (Click to open) (Click to open) (Click to open)Female (Click to open)
Domain 11,628 subtaxa 124,623 images 12,037 ident. refs
Domain 1 ident. refs
Superkingdom 1 subtaxa 1 ident. refs
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Superkingdom 3 subtaxa 2 images 9 ident. refs
Cap (Click to open)
Informal 4,902 subtaxa 43,884 images 22,172 ident. refs

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Comont, R. Insect Rambles: web id resources insectrambles.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/web-id-resources.html

Aliens

DAISIE project DAISIE European Invasive Alien Species Gateway www.europe-aliens.org

Biodiversity Catalogs

in the field() Storey, M.W. 2015 Bioimages - the Virtual Field Guide www.bioimages.org.uk

Freshwater

() Clegg, J. 1956 *** The Observer’s Book of Pond Life ***(Superseded) Observer's Books, No 24, 128pp, Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd.
Freshwater Biological Association (FBA) FreshwaterLife new.freshwaterlife.org
Greenhalgh, M. & Ovenden, D. 2007 Freshwater Life of Britain and Northern Europe Collins Pocket Guides, 256pp, Collins
Ward H.B. & Whipple G.C. 1959 Freshwater Biology 2nd edition, John Wiley, New York

Marine

Anon. The Marine Life Information Network for Britain and Ireland (MarLIN) www.marlin.ac.uk/gallerycategory.php?gcatid=8

Marine/Brackish Water

Greenhalgh, M. & Ovenden, D. 2007 Freshwater Life of Britain and Northern Europe Collins Pocket Guides, 256pp, Collins

Marine/Plankton

ICES ICES Identification leaflets for Plankton www.ices.dk/publications/our-publications/Pages/ID-Leaflets.aspx

Photo Collections

Lindsey, J.K. The Ecology of Commanster www.commanster.eu/commanster.html

Plant Galls

Anon. British Galls
Anon. Galles par Plantes - Gallen volgens Waardplant www.cebe.be/galles
Bijerk, J. Plantengallen www.plantengallen.com/engels.htm
Buhr, H.J. Pflanzengallen www.pflanzengallen.de
() Redfern, M. & Askew, R.R. 1992 Plant Galls Naturalists’ Handbooks, No 17, 99pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd
() Redfern, M. & Shirley, P. 2011 British Plant Galls AIDGAP Keys, Second edition, 432pp, Field Studies Council
() Redfern, M. & Shirley, P. 2002 *** British Plant Galls - Identification of galls on plants and fungi ***(Superseded) AIDGAP Keys, 325pp, Field Studies Council

Plant Pathology

() Buczacki, S. & Harris, K. 1998 Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants Collins Photoguide, 2nd edition edition, Collins

Software/Synoptic Keys

Dallwitz, M.J. DELTA - DEscription Language for TAxonomy delta-intkey.com
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for BIOTA (living things)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 104,677 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for BIOTA (living things)

Pronunciation of Scientific names:

Scientific names are expressed in Latin. The individual words or parts of words may be derived from other languages, eg Greek, or the names of places or people, but the resulting words are always Latinised, so it’s the pronunciation of Latin that is our concern.

There are four competing conventions for pronouncing Latin (as follows, each with the appropriate pronunciation of Julius Caesar):

Anglo-Latin JOO-lee-us SEE-ser
Classical Latin (or reconstructed ancient Roman) YOO-lee-us KYE-sahr
Church Latin YOO-lee-us CHAY-sahr
The northern continental European tradition YOO-lee-us T(SAY)-sahr
Anglo-Latin (Ommundsen) and northern continental European are the preferred conventions for Latin names. These differ from both Classical Latin, which will be familiar to those who learnt Latin at school, and Church Latin which will be recognised by those who sing in choirs.

Many people pronounce occasional scientific names in other ways, and local idiosyncracies often evolve among people who work together. Naturalists rarely worry about being "book correct", but these rules are useful to answer questions about which is "right".

Personally, what I hear and say seems stick fairly closely to Anglo-Latin, but I like to make an exception where the word is obviously two words joined together, when it can be helpful to emphasise the separate parts.

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