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Please note that the ITIS system URL has changed (25 September 2006).
Please use www.itis.gov and not www.itis.usda.gov
The Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) is a partnership designed to provide consistent and reliable information on the taxonomy of biological species. ITIS was originally formed in 1996 as an interagency group within the U.S. federal government, involving agencies from the Department of Commerce to the Smithsonian Institution. It has now become an international body, with Canadian and Mexican government agencies participating. The primary focus of ITIS is North American species, but many groups are worldwide and ITIS continues to collaborate with other international agencies to increase its global coverage. Look up taxonomy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biodiversity. ...
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The United States Department of Commerce is a Cabinet department of the United States government concerned with promoting economic growth. ...
The Smithsonian Institution Building or Castle on the National Mall serves as the Institutions headquarters. ...
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ITIS provides an automated reference database of scientific and common names for species. As of December 2005, it contains over 500,000 scientific names, synonyms, and common names for terrestrial, marine, and freshwater taxa from all biological kingdoms (animals, plants, fungi, and microbes). While the system does focus on North American species, it also includes many species not found in North America, especially among birds, fishes, amphibians, mammals, many reptiles, and several invertebrate animal groups. ITIS couples each scientific name with a stable and unique taxonomic serial number TSN as the “common denominator” for accessing information on such issues as invasive species, declining amphibians, migratory birds, fishery stocks, pollinators, agricultural pests, and emerging diseases. It presents the names in a standard classification that contains author, date, distributional, and bibliographic information related to the names. In addition, common names are available through ITIS in the major official languages of the Americas (English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese). ITIS and its international partner, Species 2000, cooperate to annually produce the Catalogue of Life, a checklist and index of the world’s species. The Catalogue of Life goal is to complete the global checklist of 1.8 million species by 2011. The term database originated within the computer industry. ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Of the nearly 415,660 (April 2006) scientific names in the current database, approximately 210,000 were inherited from the database formerly maintained by the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The newer material has been checked to higher standards of taxonomic credibility, and over half of the original material has been checked and improved to the same standard. For further background on ITIS and for information to help interpret what can be found therein, please see the ITIS' Data Development History and Data Quality page [1], and the Glossary of Terms Used in ITIS [2]. The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ...
The National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) manages the acquisition, ingest processing, quality control and long-term preservation of oceanographic data. ...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is a scientific agency of the United States Department of Commerce focused on the conditions of the oceans and the atmosphere. ...
Biological taxonomy is not fixed, and opinions about the correct status of taxa at all levels, and their correct placement, are constantly revised as a result of new research. Many aspects of classification will always remain a matter of scientific judgement. The ITIS database is updated to take account of new research as it becomes available, and the information it yields is likely to represent a fair consensus of modern taxonomic opinion. Records within ITIS include information about how far it has been possible to check and verify them. Its information should be checked against other sources where these are available, and against the primary research scientific literature where possible. Scientific literature is the totality of publications that report original empirical and theoretical work in the sciences and social sciences. ...
Member agencies The United States Department of Agriculture (also called the Agriculture Department, or USDA) is a United States Federal Executive Department (or Cabinet Department). ...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is a scientific agency of the United States Department of Commerce focused on the conditions of the oceans and the atmosphere. ...
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) is a scientific agency of the United States government. ...
The Smithsonian Institution Building or Castle on the National Mall serves as the Institutions headquarters. ...
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The Department of Agriculture and Agri-Food, also referred to as Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, is the department of the government of Canada with responsibility for policies governing agriculture production, farming income, research and development, inspection, and the regulation of animals and plants. ...
NatureServe is a non-profit environmental conservation organization. ...
The National Park Service (NPS) is the United States federal agency that manages all National Parks, many National Monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations. ...
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