Zoology

Animal Diversity Web
This web site, began as a class project for a University of Michigan biology class, contains: "Thousands of species accounts about individual animal species. These may include text, pictures of living animals, photographs and movies of specimens, and/or recordings of sounds." In addition to these species accounts, the site provides "Descriptions of levels of organization above the species level, especially phyla, classes, and in some cases, orders and families. Hundreds of hyperlinked pages and images illustrate the traits and general biology of these groups." This is a great site that is easy to search!

Biosis Resource Guide: Zoology
This website from Biosis, a life sciences database, provides information on general aspects of zoology like careers and education in zoology, professional organizations, Internet resource guides, plus links for specific sub-fields of zoology such as entomology and herpetology.

Index to Organism Names
"The Index to Organism Names is a tool for biologists sponsored and hosted by BIOSIS...The index currently covers animals (all names reported in Zoological Record since 1978 and including those protists generally considered animals), algae, bacteria, fungi, and mosses." The site allows you to search by the Latin name of the species. Make sure that you check out the "Biology Browser" hits that are included as part of your search results.

Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
This site from the University of California, Berkeley, is a searchable database of specimen records and images from the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. This museum, founded in 1908, believes that "that organisms should be studied in relationship to their natural environments." The collection focuses on animals pf "western North America, Mexico and Central America, western South America, central Asia, and east Africa."