Is there anywhere I can find lists of all plant and/or animal species by each country

[gribbon]

Is there anywhere I can find lists of all plant and/or animal species by each country? It would be greta if you could say, click on a map/country, and immediately know all the known species of plant and/or animals living there....is ther eany such site? Zoo Bank requires sponsoring...

[somebody]

humm.. here is one for animals dont know if its reliable for ALL the animal species:

 

 

 

http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/species/our_solutions/species_country/index.cfm#asia

 

 

cant find plants, i tried.

[Ganoderma]

not really but there are many more specific ones such as Plants of "XX" country, or orchids of USA etc. here are a couple links.

 

Reptiles: http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/%7Euetz/LivingReptiles.html

Fish: http://www.fishbase.org/search.php

Native plants of taiwan (the site sucks but the info is around offline): http://taiwanflora.sinica.edu.tw/english/eindex.html

amphibians: http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/index.php

a new amphibian i havnt used before: http://amphibiaweb.org/search/index.html

Gymnosperm (i havnt had great luck with this site): http://www.conifers.org/

 

there are also more general but helpful sites like : http://bugguide.net/node/view/15740 http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html

but they are not very specific especially a tthe genera and specie levels.

[Cedars]

Is there anywhere I can find lists of all plant and/or animal species by each country? It would be greta if you could say, click on a map/country, and immediately know all the known species of plant and/or animals living there....is ther eany such site? Zoo Bank requires sponsoring...

 

I know of no site that offers such a complete database that would be that user friendly. I have in the past found good sites that offer pieces of information more specific to the area the website is covering.

 

Heres a good site:

 

http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/sitemap.htm

 

This one covers plants for aquarium use, and its database offers good information on the plants origins:

 

http://www.tropica.dk/default.asp

 

The nice thing about the plant database is it gives family name and origin which would allow you to google that to find more information about that family and possibly build your own database of information.

[Michaelangelica]

;)

In these, Internet WWW days, you would think that such lists would be available on line ? + being added to daily.

What's Wiki doing if not this

Is it just too big a job?

[Ganoderma]

have you ever looked at plant taxonomy? its a mess! most of the time there are a few different classifications of the same plant.....that and there are tens of thousands of species....not even going into the fact that the basic outlaying for a species is more directed at animals and plants really don't see to work as well in the same classification system!

 

add that to the numbers involved with all species, and also the fact that some countries are so rugged, unaccessible, not safe to go to or simply just no money/interest in exploring, and there we have our results.

 

but you can get fairly good results searching for specific families, or orders in certain countries. like spiders of canada, orchids of taiwan, carps of japan etc....you can get good lists if you do this individually, especially for "developed" countries.