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Research data from scientific publications

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Data from 3 billion occurrences and 112,000 datasets
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Full-text search in publications and taxonomic treatments
Query for taxonomic names, vernacular names, questions or other services

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Supports data comparison, integration, and reuse for biodiversity research

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

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Openness

99.63%

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99.98%

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99.97%

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Animalia

1,181,459

Plantae

113,120

Fungi

19,732

Protista

35

Archaea

17

Bacteria

2,253

Holotype

140,314

Linnaeus

21,879

Tyrannosaurus rex

74

New Species

320,785

Linnaeus + Holotype

153

European Journal of Taxonomy

59,003

November 7, 2025 (v1)

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FIGURE 4 in The pygmy mole crickets (Orthoptera: Tridactylidae) of Florida, USA, with descriptions of three new species

Woo, Brandon

FIGURE 4. Characters used in key couplet 4.

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Published in Zootaxa, 5717(4), 451-487, 2025.

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November 7, 2025 (v1)

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FIGURE 1 in The pygmy mole crickets (Orthoptera: Tridactylidae) of Florida, USA, with descriptions of three new species

Woo, Brandon

FIGURE 1. Characters used in key couplet 1.

Uploaded on January 20, 2026

Published in Zootaxa, 5717(4), 451-487, 2025.

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December 31, 1843 (v1)

Book chapter

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THE HUDSONIAN CURLEW

Lath.

Lath. (1843): THE HUDSONIAN CURLEW. In: The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories. New York: J.B. Chevalier: 42-47, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18317323

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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..