Last revised: January 2008
Animals: Common and Scientific Names
Scope: This is a guide to recent selected English-language reference sources on the nomenclature/taxonomic literature held at the University of Maryland at College Park. If you have any questions, please contact the UMCP's Biology Librarian, Tom Harrod
Internet Resources
- Animal Diversity Web
This Website from the University of Michigan's Museum of Zoology offers taxonomic information, pictures of organisms, and more. - Animal Info - Index by Species Name
This site features alphabetical lists of the common and scientific names of various animals - National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Taxonomy Browser
- San Diego Zoo - Animal Group Names
San Diego Zoo's guide to the names given to groups of animals - Species2000
Searchable by common name, this site provides the scientific name, status, and classification of any known species. - UCMP Web Lift
This site from the University of California gives taxonomic information
How to Find Books in the Library Catalog
To locate books: Subject searches will locate words and terms when they appear in the title, subject headings or notes of a record. The terms "history," "science" or "medicine" will retrieve thousands of records, so be sure to limit your search by adding additional terms such as taxomony, classification, or nomenclature, etc.Taxomomic guides are usually shelved with the science books (Call Numbers beginning with Q). Books are categoried according to Library of Congress Classification Scheme using L. C. Subject Headings. See the four-volume set of red books near the terminal s. Typical Library of Congress Subject headings are: Mammals -- Classification, Reptiles -- Nomenclature, etc.
Use your term(s) of interest in the search box below - or consult a Reference Librarian.
Animals, in General
- Animal Identification; A Reference Guide
Location(S): McKeldin Library Reference Stacks
Call Number: QL351.A53 - Animal Kingdom; the Strange and Wonderful Ways of Mammals ...
Location(S): McKeldin Library Stacks
Call Number: QL45.A6 - Biological Systematics: the State of the Art
Location(S): McKeldin Library Stacks
Call Number: QH83.M655 1993 - Biology Data Book
Location(S): McKeldin Library Reference Stacks & McKeldin Library Stacks
Call Number: QH310.A392 - Cambridge Natural History
Location(S): McKeldin Library Stacks
Call Number: QL45.C18 - Dictionary of Zoology
Location(S): McKeldin Library Reference Stacks
Call Number: QL9 .C66 1999 - Five Kingdoms; an Illustrated Guide to the Phyla
of Life on Earth
Location(S): McKeldin Library Stacks
Call Number: QH83 .M36 1998 - Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia
Location(S): McKeldin Library Reference Stacks
Call Number: QL7 .G7813 2003 - Index Animalium ... Cantabridgiae, e typographio
Location(S): McKeldin Library Stacks
Call Number: QL354.S5 1902A - Index to Illustrations of Living Things Outside
North America; Where to Find Pictures of Flora and Fauna
Location(S): McKeldin Library Reference Stacks
Call Number: QL46.M86 1981 - Index to Illustrations of the Natural World
(North America)
Location(S): McKeldin Library Reference Stacks
Call Number: QL151 .T45 - International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
Location(S): McKeldin Library Reference Stacks
Call Number: QL353 .I5845 1999 - Key-Word-Index of Wildlife Research
Location(S): McKeldin Library Reference Stacks
Call Number: QL82.K49 - The New Larousse Encyclopedia of Animal Life
Location(S): McKeldin Library Reference Stacks
Call Number: QL50 .N48 1984 - Pictorial Keys to Arthropods, Reptiles, Birds, and Mammals of Public Health
Significance
Location(S): McKeldin Library Reference Stacks
Call Number: QL46.U5 1969 - SNOMED International:the Systematized Nomenclature
of Human and Veterinary Medicine
Location (S)McKeldin Library Reference Stacks
Call Number: Z695.1.V4S66 1993 - Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms
Location(S): McKeldin Library Reference Stacks
Call Number: QH83 .S89
Invertebrates
- Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates
Location(S): McKeldin Library Folio
Call Number: QL151 .E36 2001 - Fresh-Water Biology
Location(S): McKeldin Library Stacks
Call Number: QH96.E33 1959 - Freshwater Macroinvertebrates of Northeastern North
America
Location(S): McKeldin Library Stacks
Call Number: QL151.F75 1990 - Marine Invertebrates of the Pacific Northwest
Location(S): McKeldin Library Reference Stacks
Call Number: QL138.K68 1987
Vertebrates
- Arthropods of Medical and Veterinary Importance:
A Checklist of Preferred Names and Allied Terms
Location(S): McKeldin Library Reference Stacks
Call Number: QL434.2.P58 1991 - Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, The U. S.
Territories, and Canada
Location(S): McKeldin Library US Government Information
Call Number: SU Docs I 49.66:166 - Vertebrates of the United States
Location(S): McKeldin Library Reference Stacks
Call Number: QL652.B55 1968
Insects
- Common Names of Insects and Related Organisms
Location(S): McKeldin Library Stacks
Call Number: QL468 .C6 1978 - Common Names of Insects & Related Organisms, 1989
Location(S): McKeldin Library Reference Stacks
Call Number: QL474 .C66 1989 - Insects of Economic Importance: A Checklist of Preferred
Names
Location(S): McKeldin Library Stacks
Call Number: SB931.W66 1989 - An Introduction to the Modern Classification of Insects Founded
On the Natural Habits and Corresponding Organisation of the Different Families
Location(S): McKeldin Library Periodicals Room
Call Number: LANDMARKS - ASK AT PERIODICALS DESK
Fish
- Catalog of the Genera of Recent Fishes
Location(S): McKeldin Library Reference Stacks
Call Number: QL618.E88 1990 - Fishes of the World
Location(S): McKeldin Library Stacks
Call Number: QL618 .N4 2006 - The Genera of Fishes, and A Classification of
Fishes
Location(S): McKeldin Library Reference Stacks & McKeldin Stacks
Call Number: QL618.J73 - How to Know the Freshwater Fishes
Location(S): McKeldin Library Stacks
Call Number: QL627.E4 1978
Amphibians and Reptiles
- Amphibian Species of the World: A Taxonomic and
Geographical Reference
Location(S): McKeldin Library Reference Stacks
Call Number: QL645.F76 1985 - Amphibians of Central and Southern Africa
Location(S): McKeldin Library Stacks
Call Number: QL662.A356 C43 2001 - Amphibians of East Africa
Location(S): McKeldin Library Stacks
Call Number: QL662.A353 C48 2006 - The Caecilians of the World: a Taxonomic
Review
Location(S): McKeldin Library Stacks
Call Number: QL668.A6T3 - Catalogue of New World Amphibians
Location(S): McKeldin Library Reference Stacks
Call Number: QL651.H37 1983 - Checklist of World Amphibians Up to January 1,
1970
Location(S): McKeldin Library Reference Stacks
Call Number: QL645.G67 - Herpetology of Africa: a Checklist and Bibliography of the
Orders Amphisbaenia, Sauria, and Serpentes
Location(S): McKeldin Library Stacks
Call Number: QL662.A1W44 1982 - Herpetology of Europe and Southwest Asia: a
Checklist and Bibliography of the Orders Anphisbaenia, Sauria, and Serpentes
Location(S): McKeldin Library Stacks
Call Number: QL666.A45W44 1983 - Key to Amphibians and Reptiles
Location(S): McKeldin Library Stacks
Call Number: QL641.T413 1965 - A Key to Amphibians & Reptiles of the Continental United States and Canada
Location(S): McKeldin Library Folio
Call Number: QL652 .P69 1998 - Middle American Herpetology: A Bibliographic
Checklist
Location(S): McKeldin Library Stacks
Call Number: QL656.A1V55 1988 - Reptiles, Their Latin Names Explained: A Guide
to Animal Classification
Location(S): McKeldin Library Reference Stacks
Call Number: QL645.G68 1986 - Snakes of the World
Location(S): McKeldin Library Stacks
Call Number: QL666.O6 M34 1986b - Standard Common and Current Scientific Names for
North American Amphibians and Reptiles
Location(S): McKeldin Library Reference Stacks
Call Number: QL651 .S62 1990 - Turtles of the United States and Canada
Location(S): McKeldin Library Reference Stacks
Call Number: QL666.C5E76 1994 - Venomous Reptiles of North America
Location(S): McKeldin Library Stacks
Call Number: QL666.O6E77 1992 - Venomous Snakes of the World
Location(S): McKeldin Library Folio
Call Number: QL666.O6 O825 2005 - Venomous Snakes of the World: A Checklist
Location(S): McKeldin Library Reference Stacks
Call Number: QL666.O6H34 1980
Birds
- Birds to Watch 2: The ICBP [International
Council for Bird Preservation] World Checklist of Threatened Birds
Location(S): McKeldin Library Reference Stacks
Call Number: QL676.7 C65 1994 - Birds of The World: A Checklist
Location(S): McKeldin Library Reference Stacks
Call Number: QL673.C53 1981 - Checklist of North American Birds: the Species of Birds of North America from
the Arctic Through Panama, including the West Indies and Hawaiian Islands
Location(S): McKeldin Library Reference Stacks
Call Number: QL681.C52 1983 - Check-list of Birds of the World
Location(S): McKeldin Library Reference Stacks
Call Number: QL677.C47 - Checklist of the World's Birds: A Complete List
of Species, with Names, Authorities, and Areas of Distribution
Location(S): McKeldin Library Reference Stacks
Call Number: QL677.G76 - A Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World
Location(S): McKeldin Library Stacks
Call Number: QL677.H75 1991 - Distribution and Taxonomy of Birds of the World
Location(S): McKeldin Library Reference Stacks
Call Number: QL678.S54 1990 - Key to North American Birds
Location(S): McKeldin Library Stacks
Call Number: QL681.C865 1887 - A Supplement to Distribution and Taxonomy of Birds of the World
Location(S): McKeldin Library Reference Stacks
Call Number: QL678.S54 1990 SUPP.
Mammals
- Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Mammals
Location:McKeldin Library Reference Stacks
Call Number: QL701.G7913 1990 - Handbook to the Orders and Families of
Living Mammals
Location(S): McKeldin Library Stacks
Call Number: QL708.L395 - How to Know the Mammals. Pictured-Keys for Determining to
Species, all of the Mammals of the United States and Southern Canada with Maps Showing their
Geographic Distribution, and Many Pages of Helps for Their Successful Study
Location(S): McKeldin Off-Site Shelving
Call Number: QL715.B6 - Illustrated Key to Skulls of Genera of North American Land
Mammals
Location(S): McKeldin Library Stacks
Call Number: QL739.J66 1992 - Mammals; Their Latin Names Explained: A Guide to
Animal Classification
Location(S): McKeldin Library Reference Stacks
Call Number: QL708.G63 1979 - Phylogeny of the Primates: A
Multidisciplinary Approach
Location(S): McKeldin Library Stacks
Call Number: QL737.P9P45 1975 - Walker's Mammals of the World
Location:McKeldin Library Reference Stacks
Call Number:QL703 .N68 1999 - World Checklist of Threatened Mammals
Location(S): McKeldin Library Reference Stacks
Call Number: QL706.8.I57 1987 - A World List of Mammalian Species
Location(S): McKeldin Library Reference Stacks & McKeldin Library Stacks
Call Number: QL708.C67 1991
NOTE: The above references constitute only a selection of general sources. For names and taxonomic information about specific classes and/or phyla, see also:
- Guide to the Literature of the Life Sciences (pp.115-136)
Location(S): McKeldin Library Reference Stacks
Call Number: QH 303.S6 1980 - A Guide to the Zoological Literature: the Animal Kingdom
Location(S): McKeldin Library Reference Stacks
Call Number: QL 45.2 B44 1994
