Encyclopedia of Life v2: Taxon Hierarchies and Associated Taxon Concepts

This archive contains a snapshot of the taxon hierarchies, and associated scientific name strings and image thumbnails, used by the Encyclopedia of Life v2 (Parr et al. 2014, http://eol.org). See https://github.com/jhpoelen/eol-globi-data/issues/274 and https://github.com/EOL/tramea/issues/366 for discussion threads. Taxon hierarchy providers include, but are not limited to, Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS, http://itis.gov) and World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS, http://marinespecies.org).