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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

      14,971,568 Total Usages
    10,957,695 Unique Names
    4,336,854 Canonical Names
    136,673 Unparsable Names
    1,217,637 Vernacular Names
    2,323,773 Distribution Records

    Indexed Checklists

    Resources currently available through ChecklistBank are:

    Title Version Usages Families Genera Species Vernaculars Images Distributions Bibliography
    GBIF Backbone Taxonomy 2012-02-06 4,118,840 20,784 409,042 2,413,923 0 0 0 0
    The Catalogue of Life 2012-01-14 2,497,185 8,149 129,461 1,379,178 349,243 0 867,712 0
    Interim Register of Marine and Nonmari … 2012-01-13 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 2012-01-13 1,180,579 7,223 59,404 668,915 32,501 0 0 0
    The Integrated Taxonomic Information S … 2012-01-14 545,814 6,972 45,531 306,358 114,391 0 178,151 0
    World Register of Marine Species 2012-05-02 473,049 6,370 41,293 233,811 45,072 0 344,703 617,105
    Index Fungorum 2011-07-13 444,458 2,926 10,569 267,553 0 0 0 0
    Fauna Europaea 2011-07-13 314,954 0 37,214 131,671 0 0 0 0
    Wikipedia Species Pages - English 2011-09-04 190,317 0 0 0 188,786 56,101 7,261 0
    GRIN Taxonomy for Plants 2012-01-14 128,784 492 12,909 58,773 47,762 0 0 0
    Paleobiology Database 2011-07-13 113,000 6,139 52,043 44,980 0 0 0 0
    IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012-01-14 95,795 1,580 11,735 56,107 54,810 0 347,242 0
    Dyntaxa 2012-03-07 86,733 3,681 15,362 60,395 0 0 0 0
    USDA PLANTS Database 2012-01-14 84,515 526 0 0 39,302 0 302,160 0
    IRMNG Homonym List 2012-01-13 81,719 6,722 48,649 98 0 0 0 0
    The National Checklist of Taiwan 2012-01-14 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 59,789 1,561 10,266 33,341 20,405 0 0 0
    Orthoptera Species File 2012-01-13 42,534 77 4,850 25,725 1,771 70,012 74,294 170,736
    Afromoths, online datbase of Afrotropi … 2011-07-13 42,139 156 4,051 24,138 0 0 37,274 0
    International Cichorieae Network (ICN) … 2011-07-14 41,544 0 103 8,672 6,372 0 45,434 4,225
    Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment 2012-01-13 39,992 88 4,423 30,836 0 0 0 0
    Euro+Med Plantbase 2012-01-26 39,340 4 612 9,252 0 0 0 0
    The Clements Checklist 2012-01-26 31,910 0 0 10,154 12,198 0 0 0
    Database of Vascular Plants of Canada … 2012-05-06 25,783 167 1,219 5,884 30,583 0 28,800 0
    3i - Deltocephalinae Database 2012-02-06 16,381 1 911 6,628 0 0 4,504 0
    Vernacular names of Iberian fungi in S … 2012-04-19 14,401 244 1,144 0 4,469 0 0 12,871
    World Typhlocybinae database 2012-02-06 14,296 1 449 4,563 18 10,523 25,750 0
    Mammal Species of the World, 3rd editi … 2011-07-13 13,654 153 1,230 5,416 5,450 0 0 0
    IOC World Bird Names 2012-01-14 12,975 233 2,234 10,466 10,699 0 11,078 0
    Endemic species in Taiwan 2012-01-14 12,509 592 3,555 7,396 4,264 0 45 0
    Aphid Species File 2012-01-13 11,672 22 712 5,715 116 38 0 52,604
    Catalogue of Afrotropical Bees 2011-10-06 10,533 6 273 2,707 0 0 0 26,497
    CATE Araceae 2012-01-14 8,525 1 118 3,372 0 0 0 0
    Psocodea Species File 2012-01-13 7,518 48 517 5,992 0 0 89 36,591
    Blattodea Species File 2012-01-13 6,528 9 495 4,503 128 1,063 568 11,898
    Australian Coral Ecoregions 2012-03-25 5,907 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    Flora of Gaoligong Mountains 2012-01-13 5,646 203 1,086 0 0 0 0 0
    CATE Sphingidae 2012-01-14 5,372 1 217 1,602 0 0 0 0
    Plecoptera Species File 2012-01-13 5,124 29 390 3,794 11 55 15,102 14,901
    3i - Cicadellinae Database 2012-02-06 4,749 1 315 2,152 9 0 258 0
    Phasmida Species File 2012-01-13 4,616 13 456 3,035 358 10,689 5,629 26,792
    Coreoidea Species File 2012-01-14 4,376 5 482 2,716 71 155 5,513 16,148
    Sendoya S., Fernández F. AAT de hormig … 2011-09-06 4,315 1 118 3,272 0 0 7,450 0
    Checklist of vascular plants of the Ñe … 2012-02-23 4,133 101 0 634 0 0 0 0
    Mantodea Species File 2012-01-13 3,916 19 441 2,448 0 84 334 20,121
    Tanzania Plant Sepecimens 2012-01-26 3,661 90 282 0 0 0 0 0
    Global taxonomic database of Gracillar … 2012-02-29 3,042 2 99 1,855 0 0 7,527 0
    Dermaptera Species File 2012-01-14 2,919 15 221 1,901 0 0 0 3,819
    Leguminosae in Flora iberica 2012-01-14 2,777 19 173 0 743 0 1,857 0
    ICTV Master Species List 2012-02-23 2,727 87 349 0 0 0 0 0
    Seed Plants of Kangchendzonga Biospher … 2012-03-25 2,430 124 564 1,685 0 0 0 0
    Gaoligong Shan Medicinal Plants Checkl … 2012-01-13 2,348 212 736 0 0 0 0 0
    Seed Plants of Kangchenjunga Conservat … 2012-03-25 1,789 140 560 1,026 0 0 0 0
    Birds of Tanzania 2012-01-14 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
    China: Yunnan, Southern Gaoligongshan, … 2012-01-13 1,341 181 379 0 0 0 0 0
    Inventario Nacional Biodiversidad – Es … 2012-01-14 1,328 198 255 0 498 0 541 0
    Taiwanese IUCN species list 2012-01-14 1,215 169 373 393 584 0 89 0
    Eastern Mediterranean Syllidae 2012-01-13 1,152 1 24 1,123 0 0 0 0
    List of plant names: Huai Kaeo Arboret … 1,152 1 24 1,123 0 0 0 0
    Neora Valley Toorsa Corridor 2012-03-25 1,111 111 374 575 0 0 0 0
    Mahananda Neora Valley Corridor 2012-03-25 1,109 111 374 575 0 0 0 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
    Senchal Mahananda Corridor 2012-03-25 993 106 340 498 0 0 0 0
    Global Invasive Species Database 2012-01-26 870 3 0 0 9,224 0 0 0
    Andrade-C., M.G. AAT de las mariposas … 2011-09-20 816 2 44 384 0 0 611 0
    Kangchenjunga Corridor 2012-03-25 800 109 276 367 0 0 0 0
    Native Orchids from Gaoligongshan Moun … 2012-01-14 787 1 91 341 0 0 0 0
    Seed Plants of Senchal Wildlife Sanctu … 2012-03-25 760 87 249 379 0 0 0 0
    Seed Plants of Singhalila National Par … 2012-03-25 727 81 218 383 0 0 0 0
    Seed Plants of Mahananda Wildlife Sanc … 2012-03-25 697 79 249 329 0 0 0 0
    Singhalila Senchal Corridor 2012-03-25 677 82 218 331 0 0 0 0
    Embioptera Species File 2012-01-13 591 13 91 399 1 0 572 1,170
    Mimosaceae & Papilionaceae Fl. Paisös … 2012-04-19 545 2 42 0 365 0 0 497
    COA Wildlife Conservation List 2012-01-14 530 87 163 156 232 0 7 0
    Seed Plants of Toorsa Strict Nature Re … 2012-03-25 530 64 163 266 0 0 0 0
    True Fruit Flies (Diptera, Tephritidae … 2011-07-13 512 1 8 390 0 0 0 0
    Amphibia and Reptilia of Yunnan 2012-01-13 427 26 106 0 0 0 0 0
    Seed Plants of Neora Valley National P … 2012-03-25 405 67 128 172 0 0 0 0
    Seed Plants of Barsey Rhododendron San … 2012-03-25 305 38 97 141 0 0 0 0
    Toorsa Jigme Dorji Corridor 2012-03-25 298 48 90 129 0 0 0 0
    Common names of Chilean Plants 2012-01-14 249 0 0 248 249 0 0 0
    Iberian Zygaenidae in Fernández-Rubio, … 2012-04-19 211 2 16 0 0 0 0 0
    Coleorrhyncha Species File 2012-01-13 167 4 43 87 1 0 77 221
    Invasive Alien Species in Belgium - HA … 2011-07-13 155 55 0 0 298 0 0 0
    Birds of Lindi Forests Plantation 2012-01-26 140 31 45 0 0 0 0 0
    The Rufiji Fish Checklist 2012-01-26 126 18 18 18 0 0 0 0
    Inventory of Fish Species in the Wami … 2012-01-26 83 14 24 0 0 0 0 0
    Botanical Survey & Taxonomical Classif … 2012-01-13 62 11 22 25 0 0 0 0
    ECAT Provisional Names 2012-01-31 51 4 5 2 0 0 0 0
    Pheasant Diversity and Conservation in … 2012-01-13 41 1 15 0 0 0 0 0
    Kihansi Gorge Amphibian Species Checkl … 2012-01-26 31 5 10 0 0 0 0 0
    Passiflora vernacular names 2012-01-14 7 0 0 7 36 0 0 0