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and the Species 2000 and ITIS 'Catalogue of Life' 

Please use the menu on the left to browse for more information about the Species 2000 project or use the links below to search the Species 2000 and ITIS "Catalogue of Life ".

• Catalogue of Life, 1st July 2010  New!
  - Recently updated and corrected version of the 2010 Annual Checklist database.
  - 1,258,473 species.
  - What's new?
  
  
• Annual Checklist 2010 
  - Species 2000 & ITIS assembly of 77 taxonomic databases as a fixed annual edition.
  - 1,257,735 species.
  - Annual Checklist is using a new version of the interface (version 1.5). If you still prefer to use a previous version of the interface (version 1.0) please go to http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2010v1
  - Also available on a free DVD. Order your personal copy or download CD ISO image for MS Windows and burn your own version on CD.
  - Additional versions for Linux and MacOSX are available for download.
  - Archive versions of 2000-2009 Annual Checklists are available.

•  Dynamic Checklist (Prototype of 2005. Powered by SPICE software)
  - Access to 26 taxonomic databases cached in September 2005
  - 450,000 species
  
  

Please note that database coverage differs between the Dynamic and the Annual Checklists.