Catalogue of Life

The Catalogue of Life (CoL) is an online database. This database has all of the known species of animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms. It was created in 2001. It combined the Species 2000 and the American Integrated Taxonomic Information System. The Catalogue is used by scientists, educators, and policy makers. The Catalogue is also used by the Biodiversity Heritage Library, the Barcode of Life Data System, Encyclopedia of Life, and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. The Catalogue uses data from 165 other peer-reviewed databases.  the COL Checklist has 2,067,951 of the world's 2.2m species that taxonomists know about.

Related pages
ARKive
Encyclopedia of Life
Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Integrated Taxonomic Information System
Wikispecies

 References 

 Further reading 
Blundell N (2005). There's more to life on Earth. Telegraph Online, 8 Dec 2005 (retrieved 2012-05-03).

 Other websites 
 Catalogue of Life: historical checklist downloads
 2022 Annual Checklist, 2,065,448 species – https://doi.org/10.48580/dfq8
 2021 Annual Checklist, 2,008,947 species – https://doi.org/10.48580/dfq8
 2019 Annual Checklist, 1,900,983 species (incl. 63,418 extinct species)
 2018 Annual Checklist, 1,803,488 species (incl. 59,284 extinct species)
 2017 Annual Checklist, 1,713,852 species (incl. 49,346 extinct species)
 2016 Annual Checklist, 1,640,969 species
 2015 Annual Checklist, 1,606,554 species
 2014 Annual Checklist, 1,578,063 species
 2013 Annual Checklist, 1,352,112 species
 2012 Annual Checklist, 1,404,038 species
 2011 Annual Checklist, 1,347,224 species
 2010 Annual Checklist, 1,257,735 species
 2009 Annual Checklist, 1,160,711 species
 2008 Annual Checklist, 1,105,589 species
 2007 Annual Checklist, 1,008,965 species
 2006 Annual Checklist, 884,552 species
 2005 Annual Checklist, 526,323 species
 A list of contributing databases 
Category:Databases
Category:Taxonomy
Category:Websites established in 2001
Category:Science websites
Category:Zoology