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    Checklist Bank extends the indexing capacity of the GBIF data portal to include taxonomic data sources. It serves to inventory checklist resources, enabling discovery and access to a wide range of taxonomic and nomenclatural databases, datasets, and initiatives that organise and serve these data.

    All checklists registered with the GBIF registry are being index once they passed our dwca validator. If you can't find your registered data here, please verify the validation report which is linked from the list of all registered checklists.

    Checklist Bank Figures

      14,490,331 Total Usages
    10,314,102 Unique Names
    4,187,332 Canonical Names
    116,543 Unparsable Names
    950,001 Vernacular Names
    1,093,941 Distribution Records

    Indexed Checklists

    Resources currently available through ChecklistBank are:

    Title Version Usages Families Genera Species Vernaculars Images Distributions Bibliography
    GBIF Taxonomic Backbone 4,114,692 20,626 428,986 2,432,639 0 0 0 0
    The Catalogue of Life 2011-07-14 2,523,417 8,071 178,515 1,333,176 115,394 0 0 968,068
    Interim Register of Marine and Nonmari … 2011-07-13 2,341,284 34,119 790,025 1,017,851 0 0 0 0
    International Plant Names Index 2011-07-13 1,587,805 791 59,766 1,317,317 0 0 0 0
    NCBI Taxonomy 2011-10-06 1,129,556 7,164 57,999 642,132 32,001 0 0 0
    The Integrated Taxonomic Information S … 2011-09-11 490,032 6,954 44,377 284,887 110,102 0 148,875 0
    Index Fungorum 2011-07-13 444,466 2,926 10,577 267,553 0 0 0 0
    Fauna Europaea 2011-07-13 314,954 0 37,214 131,671 0 0 0 0
    World Register of Marine Species 2011-07-13 286,873 4,812 32,005 155,973 13,270 0 0 445,873
    Wikipedia Species Pages - English 2011-09-04 190,317 0 0 0 188,786 56,101 7,261 0
    GRIN Taxonomy for Plants 2011-07-13 128,784 492 12,909 58,773 47,762 0 0 0
    Paleobiology Database 2011-07-13 113,000 6,133 52,002 44,757 0 0 0 0
    IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011-09-11 95,795 1,580 11,735 56,107 54,810 0 347,242 0
    USDA PLANTS Database 2011-10-06 84,420 526 0 0 39,302 0 302,181 0
    IRMNG Homonym List 2011-07-13 77,731 6,628 58,629 148 0 0 0 0
    The National Checklist of Taiwan 2011-09-12 74,396 3,034 17,917 48,815 29,835 0 2,037 0
    Wikipedia Species Pages - German 2011-09-04 64,176 0 0 0 206,782 48,681 2 0
    Belgian Species List 2011-07-13 59,485 1,561 10,266 33,342 20,405 0 0 0
    Orthoptera Species File 2011-07-14 42,095 78 4,803 25,457 1,607 68,755 72,412 166,301
    International Cichorieae Network (ICN) … 2011-07-14 41,544 0 103 8,672 6,372 0 45,434 4,225
    Vernacular names of Iberian fungi in S … 2011-09-20 41,230 244 1,145 0 39,650 0 39,699 0
    Afromoths, online datbase of Afrotropi … 2011-07-13 40,581 156 4,051 25,685 0 0 37,274 0
    Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment 2011-07-13 39,992 88 4,423 30,836 0 0 0 0
    Database of Vascular Plants of Canada … 2011-09-05 23,640 167 1,209 5,887 30,555 0 28,871 0
    Mammal Species of the World, 3rd editi … 2011-07-13 13,654 153 1,230 5,416 5,450 0 0 0
    Endemic species in Taiwan 2011-09-12 12,509 592 3,555 7,396 4,264 0 45 0
    Aphid Species File 2011-07-13 11,332 20 708 5,598 116 38 0 43,094
    World Typhlocybinae database 2011-07-13 11,202 1 445 4,497 0 12,680 25,475 0
    Catalogue of Afrotropical Bees 2011-10-06 10,502 6 273 2,738 0 0 0 26,497
    ECAT Higher Taxonomy 2011-07-13 9,722 7,832 0 0 0 0 0 0
    CATE Araceae 2011-09-04 8,525 1 118 3,372 0 0 0 0
    Psocodea Species File 2011-07-14 7,518 48 517 5,993 0 0 89 36,591
    Blattodea Species File 2011-07-14 6,661 8 494 4,660 111 283 460 12,126
    CATE Sphingidae 2011-09-04 5,372 1 217 1,602 0 0 0 0
    Plecoptera Species File 2011-07-13 5,072 28 388 3,748 11 29 12,155 14,415
    Phasmida Species File 2011-07-13 4,610 13 454 3,031 358 10,635 5,626 26,713
    Coreoidea Species File 2011-07-14 4,376 5 482 2,716 71 155 5,513 16,148
    Sendoya S., Fernández F. AAT de hormig … 2011-09-06 4,315 1 117 3,272 0 0 7,450 0
    Mantodea Species File 2011-07-14 3,912 19 442 2,444 0 82 328 20,114
    Global taxonomic database of Gracillar … 2011-07-13 3,192 228 324 1,823 0 0 0 0
    Dermaptera Species File 2011-07-14 2,919 15 221 1,901 0 0 0 3,819
    Leguminosae in Flora iberica 2011-09-20 2,777 19 173 0 743 0 1,857 0
    birds_of_tanzania 2011-09-04 1,637 92 370 0 0 0 0 0
    Checklist of the threatened species of … 2011-09-20 1,515 179 385 0 0 0 0 0
    Inventario Nacional Biodiversidad – Es … 2011-09-20 1,328 198 255 0 498 0 541 0
    Taiwanese IUCN species list 2011-09-12 1,215 169 373 393 584 0 89 0
    Peces de la zona hidrogeográfica de la … 2011-09-20 1,105 60 274 752 0 0 1,102 0
    Zoological names. A list of phyla, cla … 2011-07-13 1,037 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    Andrade-C., M.G. AAT de las mariposas … 2011-09-20 816 2 44 380 0 0 611 0
    Mimosaceae & Papilionaceae Fl. Paisös … 2011-09-20 703 2 41 0 345 0 477 0
    Embioptera Species File 2011-07-13 588 13 91 396 1 0 569 1,156
    COA Wildlife Conservation List 2011-09-12 530 87 163 156 232 0 7 0
    True Fruit Flies (Diptera, Tephritidae … 2011-07-13 504 1 8 398 0 0 0 0
    Iberian Zygaenidae in Fernández-Rubio, … 2011-09-20 254 2 8 0 0 0 182 0
    Common names of Chilean Plants 2011-07-14 249 0 0 248 249 0 0 0
    Coleorrhyncha Species File 2011-07-14 167 4 43 87 1 0 77 221
    Invasive Alien Species in Belgium - HA … 2011-07-13 155 55 0 0 298 0 0 0
    botanical survey & taxonomical classif … 2011-09-04 62 11 22 25 0 0 0 0
    ECAT Provisional Names 2011-07-13 24 2 0 2 0 0 0 0
    Passiflora vernacular names 2011-09-04 7 0 0 7 36 0 0 0