Taxon Authority Files

These Taxonomic Authority Files are downloadable for importing into Specify.

Taxon Name Authority File: Click to Download	Updated
Arizona State University Lichens	May 28, 2003
Amphibian Species of the World Amphibia	October 21, 2002
Biotica Project Mexico, Texas and SW U.S. Plants	October 17, 2003
California Academy of Sciences Fishes	February 6, 2003
Integrated Taxonomic Information System Diplopoda	February 11, 2002
ITIS Amphibia	April 25, 2006
ITIS Annelida	April 25, 2006
ITIS Aves	June 25, 2001
ITIS Chaetognatha	April 25, 2006
ITIS Chelicerata	April 25, 2006
ITIS Cnidaria	April 25, 2006
ITIS Coleoptera	April 25, 2006
ITIS Crustacea	April 25, 2006
ITIS Diptera	April 25, 2006
ITIS Echinodermata	April 25, 2006
ITIS Entognatha	April 25, 2006
ITIS Ephemeroptera	April 25, 2006
ITIS Hemiptera	April 25, 2006
ITIS Hymenoptera	April 25, 2006
ITIS Isoptera	April 25, 2006
ITIS Lepidoptera	April 25, 2006
ITIS Mammalia	May 15, 2001
ITIS Mollusca	April 25, 2006
ITIS Myriapoda	April 25, 2006
ITIS Nemata	April 25, 2006
ITIS Neuropterida	April 25, 2006
ITIS Odonata	May 25, 2001
ITIS Orthoptera	April 25, 2006
ITIS Platyhelminthes	September 14, 2006
ITIS Plecoptera	April 25, 2006
ITIS Reptilia	April 25, 2006
ITIS Trichoptera	April 25, 2006
Kansas Biological Survey Plants	Febrary 7, 2003
Mammals Species of the World (2005) Mammals	April 19, 2006
Nomima Avium Mundi Birds	June 25, 2002
New York Botanical Garden Anthocerote	March 7, 2001
New York Botanical Garden Hepatics	December 9, 2002
Peabody Museum (Yale) Invertebrate Paleontology	March 18, 2003
ZOE Fishes (derived from MUSE Project taxon data)	February 7, 2003

GEOGRAPHIC AUTHORITY FILE:

TGN_geography_1 (335,167 records)

Second-level subdivisons (counties and equivalent);
Islands [within Island groups] within second- and first-level subdivisions (states and equivalent);
Island groups within second- and first-level subdivisions;
Water bodies within second- and first-level subdivisions and higher

TIME-STRATIGRAPHIC AUTHORITY FILE:

GSA_timestrat_1 (tables- GeologicTimeBoundary and GeologicTimePeriod)

SOURCES:

ITIS - Integrated Taxonomic Information System, US Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division

ASW - Darrel Frost, American Museum of Natural History, Amphibian Species of the World

MSW - American Society of Mammalogists, Mammals Species of the World Database

NAM - Nomina Avium Mundi (Zoonomen) , Alan Peterson

KBS - Kansas Biological Survey, Craig Freeman

CAS - California Academy of Sciences, William Eschmeyer

ZOE - Contents of TaxonName table from Zoe, data from Julian Humphries

TGN - Thesaurus of Geographic Names, The Getty Information Institute

GSA - Geological Society of America, Decade of North American Geology