AntWeb

AntWeb
Web address www.antweb.org
Commercial? no
Type of site
 Biodiversity database
Available in English language
Content license
 Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike
Owner Project Leader: Brian L. Fisher
Launched 2002

AntWeb is the leading online database on ants: storing specimens images and records, and natural history information, and documenting over 490,000 specimens across over 35,000 taxa of ants in its open source and community driven repository as of November 2014.[1] It was set up by Brian L. Fisher in 2002, and cost US$30,000 dollars to build.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "AntWeb". AntWeb Statistics. Archived from the original on 27 Oct 2014. Retrieved Nov 30, 2014.
  2. ↑ Rex Dalton (July 17, 2003). "Ants join online colony to boost conservation efforts" (PDF). Nature. Retrieved April 21, 2011.

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