Our data sources

Established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information, NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information - all for the better understanding of molecular processes affecting human health and disease.

GBIF—the Global Biodiversity Information Facility—is an international network and data infrastructure funded by the world's governments and aimed at providing anyone, anywhere, open access to data about all types of life on Earth.

IUCN is a membership Union uniquely composed of both government and civil society organisations.

The BOLD system is a global, open, and collaborative platform and community to help people improve their understanding of biodiversity. supports the acquisition, storage, validation, analysis, and publication of DNA barcodes: activities that require the integration of molecular, morphological, and distributional data. Its pivotal role in curating the reference library of DNA barcodes, coupled with its data management and analysis capabilities, makes it a central resource for biodiversity science. It enables rapid, accurate identification of specimens and also reveals patterns of genetic diversity and evolutionary relationships among taxa.

Catalogue of Life (COL) is a collaboration bringing together the effort and contributions of taxonomists and informaticians from around the world. COL aims to address the needs of researchers, policy-makers, environmental managers and the wider public for a consistent and up-to-date listing of all the world’s known species. COL also supports those who need to manage their own taxonomic information and species lists.

Bioexplora.cat is the citizen science portal of the Natural Sciences Museum of Barcelona. It introduces a new system for public participation through comments, allowing users to contribute to the value and richness of the content.

iNaturalist helps you identify the plants and animals around you while generating data for science and conservation. Get connected with a community of millions scientists and naturalists who can help you learn more about nature! What’s more, by recording and sharing your observations, you’ll create research-quality data for scientists working to better understand and protect nature.

CORE (COnnecting REpositories) provides a comprehensive bibliographic database of the world’s scholarly literature, collecting and indexing research from repositories and journals. They claim to be also the world’s largest collection of full text open access research papers. CORE is a not-for-profit service dedicated to the open access mission and one of the signatories of the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructures POSI.

The Consortium serves as gateway to biodiversity data of lichenized fungi. It unites records not only from lichen herbaria in North America, but also from herbaria in Latin America, Europe, Asia, Oceania, as well as personal collections and research observations.

AnimalBase is a service provided by the Zoological Institute of the University of Göttingen, Germany. Our work has initially been funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG.

El Bolletí de la Societat d’Història Natural de les Balears és una sèrie periòdica publicada anualment des dels inicis de la Societat, que conté articles relacionats amb la Història Natural de les Balears. Actualment se n’han editat més de 50, i ja ha esdevingut un referent bàsic per a qualsevol estudiós de la natura a les Balears.

Crisomélidos Península Ibérica y Baleares. En esta página se representan una de las familias de escarabajos más numerosa en especies de todos los coleópteros, los Chrysomelidae. Se nutren principalmente de hojas, de donde procede su nombre en ingles 'leaf beetles' (escarabajos de las hojas). Salvo algunas especies que realizan su alimentación sobre tallos o raices. En esta familia se encuentra uno de los más tristemente populares entre los agricultores, el escarabajo de la patata, hasta tal punto que muchas personas piensan que es el único escarabajo que hay o el único que conocen.

An open access journal publishing papers on insect systematics, morphology of adult and immature stages and/or their biology, phylogeny, large-scale catalogues, and general papers on methodology of insect systematics

BioLib is an international encyclopedia of plants, fungi and animals. Apart from taxonomic system you can visit our gallery, glossary, vernacular names dictionary, database of links and literature, systems of biotopes, discussion forum and several other functions related to biology. It is a non-commercial educational project intended to be used both by experts and general public. Its content can be expanded by user contributions.

The largest public research organisation in Spain and one of the most important in the European Research Area (ERA), as as the main player in the Spanish Science, and Innovation System (SECTI).

JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.

Plants of the World Online (POWO) which is an international collaborative programme that has as a primary aim to make available digitized data of the world’s flora gathered from the past 250 years of botanical exploration and research. POWO also aims to make freely available electronic data created by different projects but that no longer have an online presence or where data was never made available externally. It delivers information on the taxonomy, identification, images, distribution, traits, threat status, molecular phylogenies and uses of vascular plants worldwide. The data are sourced from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew as well as its partners and collaborators who generously contribute data and make it openly accessible on POWO.

Formerly known as the Ministry of the Environment, this department of the General State Administration is responsible for proposing and implementing the national government's policies related to water and coastal management, climate change, pollution prevention, protection of natural heritage and biodiversity, environmental conservation, forests, meteorology, and climatology.

Dialnet is one of the largest bibliographic portals in the world, with the main goal of increasing the visibility and spread of Hispanic scientific literature.

The Inventario de Especies Silvestres: EIDOS was developed to address the need for a common structure in biodiversity data. It is based on the international Plinian Core standard, which enables the information stored on the Ministerio's servers to be presented to the public in real time.

The first and longest publishing peer-reviewed journal devoted to Acarology. Acarologia publishes results of original and high quality research on all aspects of Acarology, including molecular biology, taxonomy, physiology, ecology, evolution, behaviour, biogeography, genetics, morphology and physiology. Applied acarology, including economic studies, plant parasites and biological control, and veterinary aspects, are also accepted

ENDINS is a scientific journal published by the Balearic Federation of Speleology, dedicated to the karstic environments of the Balearic Islands — a key component of the region’s natural and cultural heritage, given the archipelago’s predominantly limestone geology. For over 35 years, the journal has featured in-depth studies exploring these unique spaces. As a non-profit publication, ENDINS has gained significant recognition from both the national and international speleological communities, earning its place among the leading scientific journals on speleology and karst-related topics in Spain and Europe.

SeaLifeBase is a global online database of information about marine life. It aims to provide key information on the taxonomy, distribution and ecology of all marine species in the world apart from finfish.

The Herbario Virtual del Mediterráneo Occidental is an online platform that builds upon the foundations of the Herbario Virtual de las Islas Baleares. It offers information and an extensive image gallery of vascular plants from the Western Mediterranean region. The project is led by the Botany Department of the University of the Balearic Islands, with current collaboration from the Universities of Barcelona and Valencia.

Index Fungorum is a community resource currently co-ordinated and supported by the following partnership: The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew represented by the Mycology Section, Landcare Research-NZ, represented by the Mycology Group, and the Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Science (the custodians). The custodians, either collectively or individually, claim no IPR over the compilation, which correctly reside with the many contributors, including the custodians.

Fauna Ibérica is a centralized, online, and publicly accessible system that compiles current knowledge about the fauna of the Iberian Peninsula. This database represents one of the core objectives of the Fauna Ibérica project.

The aim of a World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) is to provide an authoritative and comprehensive list of names of marine organisms, including information on synonymy. While the highest priority goes to valid names, other names in use are included so that this register can serve as a guide to interpret taxonomic literature.

The DOI Foundation is a not-for-profit organization. We govern the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) system on behalf of the agencies who manage DOI registries and provide services to their respective communities. We are the registration authority for the ISO standard (ISO 26324) for the DOI system and we are governed by our Registration Agencies.

TAXREF is the national taxonomic reference for the fauna, flora, and fungi of both metropolitan and overseas France. It is developed and maintained by the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (MNHN) as part of the implementation of the National Inventory of Natural Heritage Information System (SINP). This unique reference for France aims to list and organize the scientific names of all living organisms recorded across the country.