TY - JOUR T1 - Fauna Europaea – all European animal species on the web JF - Biodiversity Data Journal JO - BDJ M3 - 10.3897/BDJ.2.e4034 VL - 2 AU - de Jong, Yde AU - Verbeek, Melina AU - Michelsen, Verner AU - Bjørn, Per de Place AU - Los, Wouter AU - Steeman, Fedor AU - Bailly, Nicolas AU - Basire, Claire AU - Chylarecki, Przemek AU - Stloukal, Eduard AU - Hagedorn, Gregor AU - Wetzel, Florian Tobias AU - Glöckler, Falko AU - Kroupa, Alexander AU - Korb, Günther AU - Hoffmann, Anke AU - Häuser, Christoph AU - Kohlbecker, Andreas AU - Müller, Andreas AU - Güntsch, Anton AU - Stoev, Pavel AU - Penev, Lyubomir Y1 - 17/09/2014 UR - https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.2.e4034 N2 - Fauna Europaea is Europe's main zoological taxonomic index, making the scientific names and distributions of all living, currently known, multicellular, European land and freshwater animals species integrally available in one authoritative database. Fauna Europaea covers about 260,000 taxon names, including 145,000 accepted (sub)species, assembled by a large network of (>400) leading specialists, using advanced electronic tools for data collations with data quality assured through sophisticated validation routines. Fauna Europaea started in 2000 as an EC funded FP5 project and provides a unique taxonomic reference for many user-groups such as scientists, governments, industries, nature conservation communities and educational programs. Fauna Europaea was formally accepted as an INSPIRE standard for Europe, as part of the European Taxonomic Backbone established in PESI.Fauna Europaea provides a public web portal at faunaeur.org with links to other key biodiversity services, is installed as a taxonomic backbone in wide range of biodiversity services and actively contributes to biodiversity informatics innovations in various initiatives and EC programs. PB - Pensoft Publishers SP - e4034 SN - 1314-2836 SN - 1314-2828 IS - ER -