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Over 1 million treatments and 1.8 million materials citations, from more than 80 thousand publications

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Animalia

1,173,036

Plantae

113,024

Fungi

19,601

Protista

35

Archaea

17

Bacteria

2,253

Tyrannosaurus rex

73

Linnaeus + Holotype

153

Holotype

139,661

Linnaeus

21,809

European Journal of Taxonomy

58,511

New Species

319,291

December 11, 2025 (v1)

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Potential hybrid between Luciobarbus esocinus and L. schejch; Iraq: Baghdad. © O. F. Al-Sheikhly. in Handbook of Freshwater Fishes of West Asia

Freyhof, JÖrg Yoğurtçuoğlu, Baran Jouladeh-Roudbar, Arash

Potential hybrid between Luciobarbus esocinus and L. schejch; Iraq: Baghdad. © O. F. Al-Sheikhly.

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Potential hybrid between Luciobarbus esocinus and L. schejch; Iraq: Shatt-al Arab at Basra. © A. Ali. in Handbook of Freshwater Fishes of West Asia

Freyhof, JÖrg Yoğurtçuoğlu, Baran Jouladeh-Roudbar, Arash

Potential hybrid between Luciobarbus esocinus and L. schejch; Iraq: Shatt-al Arab at Basra. © A. Ali.

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Garra tibanica; Wadi Dhila, Saudi Arabia; 65 mm SL. © F. Krupp. in Handbook of Freshwater Fishes of West Asia

Freyhof, JÖrg Yoğurtçuoğlu, Baran Jouladeh-Roudbar, Arash

Garra tibanica; Wadi Dhila, Saudi Arabia; 65 mm SL. © F. Krupp.

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Eligibility — Any research output (data, software, posters, presentation, deliverables, ...) containing biodiversity related content, e.g. taxonomy, ecology, genetics
Curation — Submissions are NOT curated. Submissions are NOT peer- reviewed.
Compliance — Biodiversity Literature Repository makes it easy to comply with the related FAIR data principles.
Zenodo — Biodiversity Literature Repository is a community inside Zenodo which is managed and hosted by CERN.

Manage your project's research outputs — A BLR sub-community provides you with a common space to manage research outputs from your project and from all your partners.
Members — Allows you to manage members from across all the project's partners and determine who can submit, who can review and who can manage.

Plazi supports and promotes the development of persistent and openly accessible digital taxonomic literature. To this end Plazi:

Plazi & CERN — the Biodiversity Literature Repository Community is managed by Plazi in collaboration with CERN.
Funded by — the work is funded by the European Commission and the Arcadia Fund..