WWW RESOURCES
General
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Digital Taxonomy Home Page
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Southern African Collectors' Biographies.
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Colorado State University's Entomology on the WWW.
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Iowa State University's Entomology Index of Internet Resources.
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AGRICOLA, the catalog of the USDA National Agricultural Library
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AGRIS, the FAO agricultural journal article database
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BIOSIS Taxonomy & Nomenclature Resources.
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Gordon Ramel's Entomology Page. An excellent introduction for laymen and students.
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South African collecting permits.
Biodiversity
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The Convention on Biodiversity
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Conservation International's world rankings for total biological diversity
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Conservation International's list of biodiversity hotspots
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The South African Museum's Biodiversity Explorer
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The Biosphere Data Project
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BIOSIS Biodiversity Resources
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NRF Sustainable Environment site
Biogeography
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MapQuest On-line Atlas
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Make a Map Draw your own maps of anywhere
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FUZZY GAZETTEER (FUZZYG), a free Web based tool for locating misspelled place names all around the world
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Defense Mapping Agency GEOnet Names Server (an international gazetteer)
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USGS Mapping Information: Geographic Names Information System (GNIS; US gazetteer)
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Animated Maps of Continental Drift
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GAP Analysis Homepage
Systematics
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The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (4th Ed.)
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World Directory of Systematic Entomologists
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ETI's World Taxonomist Database
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Biodiversity and Biological Collections WWW Server
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International Codens for Entomological Collections
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International Codens for Ich and Herp Collections
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The DELTA Home Page
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Willi Hennig Society
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Systematic Biology
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Biodiversity and Biological Collections
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Systematics Servers
Phylogenetics
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Phylogenetics Resources
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BIOSIS Taxonomy & Nomenclature Resources. Links to organizations, publications, software, collections, meetings and phylogenetic resources.
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The Tree of Life - insect phylogeny and much else.
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National Center for Biotechnological Information (e.g. Genbank)
Nomenclature
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New Entomological Taxa. A useful way to keep up to date with new taxa.
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TRITON: Taxonomy Resource & Index To Organism Names
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BIOSIS Taxonomy & Nomenclature Resources. Links to organizations, publications, software, collections, meetings and phylogenetic resources.
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BIOSIS Biosystematics & Life Sciences Resources. An excellent search engine, produced by the publisher of Biological Abstracts and Zoological Record.
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The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature.
This part of A Catalogue of South African Insects
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