Fauna Europaea – all European animal species on the web

• Published in: Biodiversity data journal Vol. 2; no. 2; pp. e4034 - 35
• Main Authors: de Jong, Yde, Verbeek, Melina, Michelsen, Verner, Bjørn, Per de Place, Los, Wouter, Steeman, Fedor, Bailly, Nicolas, Basire, Claire, Chylarecki, Przemek, Stloukal, Eduard, Hagedorn, Gregor, Wetzel, Florian, Glöckler, Falko, Kroupa, Alexander, Korb, Günther, Hoffmann, Anke, Häuser, Christoph, Kohlbecker, Andreas, Müller, Andreas, Güntsch, Anton, Stoev, Pavel, Penev, Lyubomir
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers 17.09.2014
• Subjects: Animalia; Animals; Biodiversity; Biodiversity Informatics; Bioinformatics; Catalogues and Checklists; Cenozoic; Data Management; data quality; Europe; fauna; Fauna Europaea; freshwater; Informatics; INSPIRE; natural resources conservation; Nature conservation; Neogene; Nomenclature; Species; Systematics; Taxonomic checklist; Taxonomic indexing; Taxonomic reference; Taxonomic standard; Taxonomy; Europe; Biodiversity Informatics; nomenclature; Animals; Taxonomic standard; Fauna Europaea; Taxonomic checklist; Taxonomic indexing; taxonomy; Taxonomic reference; INSPIRE
• ISSN: 1314-2836; 1314-2828; 1314-2828
• DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.2.e4034

Fauna Europaea is Europe's main zoological taxonomic index, making the scientific names and distributions of all living, currently known, multicellular, European land and freshwater animals species integrally available in one authoritative database. Fauna Europaea covers about 260,000 taxon names, including 145,000 accepted (sub)species, assembled by a large network of (>400) leading specialists, using advanced electronic tools for data collations with data quality assured through sophisticated validation routines. Fauna Europaea started in 2000 as an EC funded FP5 project and provides a unique taxonomic reference for many user-groups such as scientists, governments, industries, nature conservation communities and educational programs. Fauna Europaea was formally accepted as an INSPIRE standard for Europe, as part of the European Taxonomic Backbone established in PESI. Fauna Europaea provides a public web portal at faunaeur.org with links to other key biodiversity services, is installed as a taxonomic backbone in wide range of biodiversity services and actively contributes to biodiversity informatics innovations in various initiatives and EC programs.