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Internet Public LibraryThis pathfinder is designed to guide you to sources that will help you understand how animals are classified under the Linnaean system of classification, information about these animals, and how they are related to other animals.
If you would like to search at your local library, you may want to look under the following subject headings:
Library of Congress Classification System:
QL Zoology
Dewey Decimal Classification System:
590 Zoological Sciences
Biological Identification: The Principles and Practice of Identification
Methods in Biology
by Richard J. Pankhurst. Baltimore: University Park Press, 1978.
Classification and Biology
by R. A. Crowson. London, Heinemann Educational, 1970.
Classification, Evolution, and the Nature of Biology
by Alec L. Panchen. Cambridge [England]; New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
The Diversity of Living Organisms
edited by R.S.K. Barnes. Oxford; Malden, MA: Blackwell Science, 1998.
Five Kingdoms: An Illustrated Guide to the Phyla of Life on Earth
by Lynn Margulis and Karlene V. Schwartz. San Francisco : W.H. Freeman, 1982.
The Phylogenetic System: The Systematization of Organisms on the Basis
of their Phylogenesis
by Peter Ax; translated by R.P.S. Jefferies. Chichester [West Sussex]; New York: Wiley, 1987.
Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms
by Sybil P. Parker, editor in chief. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982.
Classification of Living Things
http://daphne.palomar.edu/animal/default.htm
"In this tutorial you will be learning about the Linnaean system of classification
used in the biological sciences to describe and categorize all living things. The focus
is on finding out how humans fit within this system. In addition, you will discover part
of the great diversity of life forms and come to understand why some animals are considered
to be close to us in their evolutionary history."
The Animal Diversity Web
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/index.html
"The Animal Diversity Web is a collection of pictures and information about animals.
Accounts of individual species include information on distributions, natural history,
conservation, and economic importance, along with pictures and sounds if available.
Synopses of some higher taxonomic groups are also provided."
The Tree of Life
http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/phylogeny.html
"The Tree of Life is a collection of over 1380 World Wide Web pages containing information
about the diversity of life. These pages are housed on 20 computers in four countries, and are
authored by biologists from around the world. Each page contains information about one group
of organisms. The pages are linked one to another in the form of the evolutionary tree of
organisms, with the pages branching off from a group's page being about subgroups. In this
way the Tree of Life project illustrates, by the connectedness of its own pages, the
evolutionary tree that unites all living things."
The Phylogeny of Life
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibit/phylogeny.html
This is an exhibit maintained by Berkeley which takes you hierarchically through
"the ancestor/descendant relationships which connect all organisms that have ever lived."
Sea World/Busch Gardens Animal
Information Database http://www.seaworld.org/
This site provides detailed species information on select animals that tend to be featured
in their parks.
Audubon Online Field Guides http://www.eNature.com/guides/select_group.asp
Includes guides for amphibians, birds, butterflies, fishes, insects, mammals, reptiles, seashells,
seashore creatures, spiders, trees, and wildflowers. Use the advanced search features "to search by size, color, habitat,
region, and more."
The Cyber Zoomobile
http://www.primenet.com/~brendel/
This site contains photos and species information about animals you might typically find
in a zoo.
The Virtual
Zoo http://library.advanced.org/11922/index.htm
This is a fun and easy way to find species classification and facts about animals commonly
found in zoos (plus extinct animals) based on their common names.
Yahoo Category for Zoology http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Biology/Zoology/
From this index, you should be able to find species information if you click on either the
Nomenclature or
Animals, Insects, and Pets headings.
This pathfinder created by Amy K. Watia.
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