Israel Science and Technology Directory

Species Databases

Abbreviation	Database
	AmphibiaWeb - Amphibian natural history, conservation, and taxonomy
	Animal Diversity Web - Database and encyclopedia of animal natural history
BOLD	Barcode of Life Data Systems
VectorBase	Bioinformatics Resource for Invertebrate Vectors of Human Pathogens
	Birds in Israel
	Butterflies and Moths of Israel
UNITE	Database for molecular identification of fungi
	Database of Marine Invertebrates in Israeli Coast
	Database of the Scale Insects of the World
	Dolphin acoustic survey
FINS	Fish Information Service
	FishBase: Global Information System on Fishes
GBIF	Global Biodiversity Information Facility
GISD	Global Invasive Species Database
	Ichthyology Collection Database
ION	Index to Organism Names
	Insect World of Israel - Butterflies, Beetles and other Insects from Israel
ITIS	Integrated Taxonomic Information System
IBOL	International Barcode of Life - Identify species with DNA barcoding
ICZN	International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature
	Isogenic strains and animal models
	Israel Biodiversity Information System (BioGIS): National flora and fauna of Israel
	List of dog breeds
ISRAMAR-BIO	Marine species observations on Israeli coasts
	NCBI Taxonomy Database
	National Museum of Natural History Databases
	Nomenclature of Genes, Genetic Markers, Alleles, and Mutations in Mouse and Rat
	North American butterflies and their habitat ranges
	Phylogenetic systematics, a.k.a. evolutionary trees
	Plant Species
	Prokaryotic Nomenclature of Bacteria and Archaea
	Sizing ocean giants: Patterns of intraspecific size variation in marine megafauna
ToL	Tree of Life Web Project
	Universal Chalcidoidea Database
WoRMS	World Register of Marine Species

* DNA barcoding uses a short DNA sequence from a standard position in the genome for species identification in taxonomic research. Cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 mitochondrial region (COI) is the standard barcode region for higher animals.