Florida information and organizations
US government agencies and information
Plant Protection Agencies and Organizations
Other States
United States
International
Directories
People and Organizations
(NOTE: additional directories and phone books are indexed by sites in the
General Reference and Subject Directories sections below)
Libraries and Museums
Journals
Online Reference Sources
General Reference
Geography Reference
(NOTE: Many other map and travel reference sources are indexed in the General
Reference sources above)
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GEOnet Names Server
- non-US geographical feature names approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic
Names, from the National Imagery and Mapping Agency
(How to search)
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Maps On Us - enter an address,
city, state, and/or zip code and get a map of the location,
or get driving directions from one location to another (United States only)
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U.S. Gazeteer - from
the U.S. Census Bureau; search for a place by city/county name or zip code
(does not include names of unincorporated areas), also a gateway to the
Census Bureau's TIGER map server
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USGS Geographic Names Information
System - official source of information about physical and cultural
geographic features in the United States
(How to search)
Biology and Agriculture Reference
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BioTech's
Life Science Dictionary
- Common Names of Insects & Related Organisms - a searchable database from the Entomological Society of America
- Common Names of Plant Diseases
- from the American Phytopathological Society; search by keyword or view
lists by host name
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EDIS - the Uiversity of Florida IFAS Extension site
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Fungal
Databases - from USDA Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory; includes:
Specimens in the U.S. National Fungus Collections, Fungi on Plants and
Plant Products in the United States, References on the systematics of plant
pathogenic fungi, Index to Saccardo's Syl1oge Fungorum, and an index to
the Index of Fungi (1940-1980)
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Germplasm Resources
Information Network (GRIN) Taxonomy - from USDA-ARS; covers
plants, especially economic plants
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Index Fungorum - a searchable database of fungal names at species level and below (links to separate databases of family and generic names are also on this page), compiled from authoritative published lists; from CABI Bioscience
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Index to Organism
Names - covers animals, bacteria, fungi and mosses; sponsored by BIOSIS
with data from Zoological Record, USDA/ARS Systematic Botany and Mycology,
International Mycological Institute, and Missouri Botanical Garden
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ICTVdB
- Virus databases of the International Committee on the Taxonomy of Viruses; features searchable lists of virus families, genera and species with descriptions and a picture gallery
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Insect & Mite Databases - from USDA's Systematic
Entomology Laboratory; includes ScaleNet, Biosystematic Database of World Diptera, and more
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Integrated Taxonomic
Information System (ITIS) - taxonomic information on the biota of North
America from cooperating US Federal agencies; part of the Species
2000 project
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International
Code of Botanical Nomenclature- electronic version of the current (2000 ed.) text
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International Code of Zoological Nomenclature - Electronic version of the current code (4th ed., 2000)
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International Plant Names Index - a searchable database of plant names and the citations for their original descriptions ; includes data from Index Kewensis, the Gray Herbarium Card Index, and the Australian Plant Names Index
- InvasiveSpecies.gov - gateway to US Federal and State invasive species activities and programs, and the website for the National Invasive Species Council
- List of Prokaryotic Names with Standing in Nomenclature - includes changes/updates from International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
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National Ag Safety
Database (NASD) - a compendium of US federal (including EPA and OSHA)
and state information on agricultural safety and health, from NIOSH
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NCBI Taxonomy Browser
- search the National Institute for Biotechnology Information's database for any organism
by scientific or common name, and view it's complete taxonomic lineage
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Nomenclatural
Glossary for Zoology - terms used by indexers from Zoological Record
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Plant Viruses
Online - descriptions and lists from the VIDE database
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PLANTS National Database -
from USDA; electronic replacement for the National List of Scientific
Plant Names; provides scientific and common names, symbols, and other
attributes of native or naturalized plants known to occur in the US
Web search tools
Guides and Tutorials
Subject directories
Internet search engines (keyword searches)
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