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Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

April 18, 2016

The ITIS mission is to communicate a comprehensive taxonomy of global species that enables biodiversity information to be discovered, indexed, and connected across all human endeavors. 

Use the ITIS search, download, API, and web tools as a standardized reference of scientific names and their taxonomic hierarchy.

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