Reference:SCIENTIFIC NAMES

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Use the resources below to find out what kind of organism a scientific name belongs to.

COMMON NAMES TO SCIENTIFIC NAMES

The Internet has made it very easy to move from a common name to a scientific name. These resources can search by common name.

• Tree of Life http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html

• iSpecies http://ispecies.org

• NCBI Taxonomy Browser http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy

• ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System) http://www.itis.gov/

• Index to Organisms: http://www.organismnames.com

Some problems can arise due to a common name being applied to more than one species. Some organisms do not have common names. Some authors make up common names.

See also: Living Organisms

CAT 06/08