title: Fauna Europaea - all European animal species on the web.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland ; University of Amsterdam - Faculty of Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
authors.forename: Yde
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: de Jong
authors.affiliation: Unaffiliated, Basel, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Melina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Verbeek
authors.affiliation: Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark.
authors.forename: Verner
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Michelsen
authors.affiliation: Danish Agency for Digitisation, Copenhagen, Denmark.
authors.forename: Per de Place
authors.initials: Pde P
authors.lastname: Bjørn
authors.affiliation: University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
authors.forename: Wouter
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Los
authors.affiliation: Unaffilated, Copenhagen, Denmark.
authors.forename: Fedor
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Steeman
authors.affiliation: WorldFish Center, Los Baños, Philippines.
authors.forename: Nicolas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Bailly
authors.affiliation: ISUPNAT, Viroflay, France.
authors.forename: Claire
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Basire
authors.affiliation: Institute of Zoology, Warsaw, Poland.
authors.forename: Przemek
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Chylarecki
authors.affiliation: Department of Zoology, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia.
authors.forename: Eduard
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Stloukal
authors.affiliation: Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Gregor
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Hagedorn
authors.affiliation: Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Florian Tobias
authors.initials: FT
authors.lastname: Wetzel
authors.affiliation: Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Falko
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Glöckler
authors.affiliation: Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kroupa
authors.affiliation: Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Günther
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Korb
authors.affiliation: Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Anke
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hoffmann
authors.affiliation: Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Christoph
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Häuser
authors.affiliation: FU Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kohlbecker
authors.affiliation: FU Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Müller
authors.affiliation: FU Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Anton
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Güntsch
authors.affiliation: National Museum of Natural History and Pensoft Publishers, Sofia, Bulgaria.
authors.forename: Pavel
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Stoev
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biodiversity & Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Pensoft Publishers, Sofia, Bulgaria ; Pensoft Publishers, Sofia, Bulgaria.
authors.forename: Lyubomir
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Penev
keywords: Animals; Biodiversity Informatics; Fauna Europaea; INSPIRE; Taxonomic checklist; Taxonomic indexing; Taxonomic reference; Taxonomic standard; nomenclature; taxonomy