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| Handbooks and Encyclopedias | Interactive Keys (Downloadable Software) |
| Flora |
| Searching the catalog for books on Identification Keys: | ||
| Try a keyword search: | identification AND mammal* identification AND reptile* key AND identification AND plant* |
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| Try a subject search: | identification- echinodermata- florida dicotyledons- illinois- identification marine invertebrates- identification |
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| Browse the stacks: | Identification guides will be distributed throughout the collection, associated with species, genera and kingdoms but generally in QK’s and QL’s. | |
| Biological Sciences - ELECTRONIC An interdisciplinary database that offers abstracts and citations to a wide range of research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology, and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science. Use “Identification Keys” as a descriptor. |
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| BioOne - ELECTRONIC | ||
| Columbia Earthscape - ELECTRONIC | ||
| American Insects : A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico - PRINT Hagerty Reference QL474 .A76 2000 |
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| Birds of North America - PRINT Hagerty Reference QL681 .A625 2001 |
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| A Dictionary of Entomology - PRINT Hagerty Reference QL462.3 .G67 2001 |
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| Encyclopedia of Minerals - PRINT Hagerty Reference QE355 .R6 |
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| Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia - PRINT Hagerty Reference QL7 .G7813 2004 |
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| Marine mammals of the world : a comprehensive guide to their identification - PRINT Hagerty 2nd Floor QL713.2 .J44 2008 |
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| A manual of mammalogy : with keys to families of the world - PRINT Hagerty 2nd Floor QL703 .M375 2001 |
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| Turtles of the United States and Canada - PRINT Hagerty 2nd Floor QL666.C5 E76 1994 |
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| Pennsylvania/Mid Atlantic | ||
| Bay Grass - WWW Grasses of the Chesapeake Bay. |
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| Common Trees of Pennsylvania - WWW 57 of the most common trees from Pennsylvania Dept of Conservation and Natural Resources. |
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| Kirby Key: Online Plant Idenfication Guide - WWW Plants of the Kirby Park Natural Area; developed by the students and faculty of the Rosenthal Herbarium, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA. |
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| Pine Barrens of New Jersey - WWW Herbateous Plants are Complete (except for aquatic & grasslike) Trees & Shrubs are Still Incomplete. A nice site with color photos. |
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| Northeast Wetland Flora - WWW | ||
| North America | ||
| Aquatic Vascular Plants - WWW Focus on Hawaii, but application is wider. |
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| Midwestern Wetland Flora - WWW 300 Midwestern wetland plants from the Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center. |
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| Gymnosperms of the Southeastern U.S. - WWW | ||
| Identification Keys - WWW List of links to keys. |
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| Global | ||
| ActKey - WWW This is an interactive identification program providing keys to floras of China, North America, Madagascar, Borneo, and the world including Families of Angiosperms: Punched Cards by Hansen & Rahn, Punch Card Key to the Families of Dicotyledons of the Western Hemisphere South of the United States By Donald R. Simpson and David Janos, Generic Tree Flora of Madagascar by George E. Schatz, Trees and Shrubs of Borneo by James K. Jarvie & Ermayanti, Genera of Brassicaceae of the world by Ihsan Al-Shehbaz, and keys to many large taxa, particularly for China. |
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| Flowering Plant Family Identification - WWW World wide coverage. |
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| Lichens (Foliicolous) - WWW A semi-interactive tool for the identification of genera, species and subspecific taxa of lichens commonly found on leaves. |
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| Arthropods - WWW Invertebrate animals such as insects, arachnids, and crustaceans. |
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| Beetles (Tiger) - WWW Information for the identifying all North American and most Central American tiger beetle species and subspecies. |
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| Birds - WWW Visual Key for Bird Identification. Covers Waterfowl & Marshland Birds, Predatory Birds, Upland Ground Birds, Perching & Tree-Clinging and Song Birds. |
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| Bird Calls - WWW A guide to identify sounds made by birds including sound files. |
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| Corals - WWW Polychotomous identification key for common Florida zooxanthellate corals. |
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| Fish - WWW Freshwater fish of South Carolina. |
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| Insects - WWW Part of an expansive site on insects. Worth exploring. |
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| Insects (Singing) - WWW These are Crickets, Katydids, and Cicadas. |
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| Lizards - WWW Part of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Amphibian and Reptile Atlas. |
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| Moths - WWW Key to the superfamilies of the Lepidoptera with special reference to North and South Dakota. |
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| Pond Life Identification Kit - WWW A simple guide to small and microscopic pond life, with links to Micscape resources. |
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| Pond Animals- With and Without Legs - WWW | ||
| Snakes - WWW Part of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Amphibian and Reptile Atlas. |
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| Turtles - WWW Part of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Amphibian and Reptile Atlas. |
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| Spiders - WWW An animated key, focused on european species. |
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| Multispecies Sites | ||
| FishBase - WWW 29300 species worldwide. |
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| Florida Department of Environmental Protection - WWW These files are all keys for the identification of various kinds of organisms. They were created by or for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, or its predecessor agencies. |
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| Cortland Herpetology Connection - WWW New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Amphibian and Reptile Atlas. |
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| Fossils - WWW If you don’t know what kind of fossil you have, this site from the Kentucky Geological Survey was compiled to try and point you in the right direction. It provides both descriptive and shape keys. |
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| Rocks - WWW Identification key to a wide range of rock types. |
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| Rocks (Metamorphic) - WWW A colorful simple quick key to metamorphic rocks. |
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Interactive Keys (Downloadable Software)
| An interactive key is an interactive computer program in which the user enters attributes (character-state values) of the specimen. The program eliminates taxa whose attributes do not match those of the specimen. This process is continued until only one taxon remains. The taxon attributes are usually stored as a characters-by-taxa ‘matrix’. | ||
| Intkey - WWW Developed by CSIRO as part of DELTA ((DEscription Language for TAxonomy) a flexible and powerful method of recording taxonomic descriptions for computer processing. It has been adopted as a standard for data exchange by the International Taxonomic Databases Working Group. Datasets for use with Intkey. |
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| Meka - WWW MEKA (pronounced “mecca”) is an interactive Multiple-Entry Key Algorithm to enable rapid identification of biological specimens. Three keys to flowering plant groups are included in this self-extracting archive:
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| A Comparison of Interactive Identification Programs - WWW by M.J. Dallwitz |
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