WEB RESOURCES

BIOLOGY GLOSSARIES

1. Online Biology Book Glossary by  M.J. Farabee
2. Kimballs's Biology Pages has a glossary of biological terms
3. WCB/McGraw Hill PlantsAnimalsEnvironment glossary
4. BIOSIS Nomenclatural Glossary for zoological taxonomic literature
5. Glossary of Marine Biology from Oxford University Press
6. UCMP Glossary of Metazoan Terms
7. BioTech's Life Science Dictionary (from U.T.'s and Indiana's Cellular & Molecular Biology - terms dealing with biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, cell biology, and genetics)
8. OnLine Glossary from the Philadelphia Zoo
9. Avian External Anatomy Glossary
10. Biodiversity Glossary of Terms
11. University of Wisconsin: Biology Resources Guide

VERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY COURSES ON THE WEB

1. Arizona State--M. J. Fouquette 
2. Canisius University
3. Colby College
4. Emporia College
5. Hudson Valley Community College Vertebrate Zoology 03051
6. Iowa State
7. Kent State
8. Lewis and Clark-land vertebrates
9. Marietta
10. Old Dominion
11. Oklahoma SSM
12. Oregon State
13. Smith College Vertebrate Biology - Bio 244b Virginia Hayssen
14.  SUNY Geneseo University   Biology of the Vertebrates
15. Texas A&M WFSC 302
16. University of Akron
17. University of Michigan - Animal Diversity Web
18. University of New Mexico
19. University of Nebraska
20. University of Puget Sound
21. University of Texas Vertebrate Natural History
22. University of Texas Compararative anatomy - UT
23. U Washington - Vertebrate Natural History

VERTEBRATE CLASSIFICATION

If you need help with dichotomous keys, take the right hand door at the Aberdeen University Virtual Museum of Taxonomy

North Harris, Montgomery College Library and learning resource center.  Phylum Chordata resources.  Links to everything you need is here.

The following sites are highly recommended:

• Tree of Life: A multi-authored, distributed Internet project containing information about phylogeny and biodiversity.  Vertebrates start here
• The UCMP Web Lift to Taxa from the fine folks at the Museum of Paleontology, University of California at Berkeley.  Chordates start here
• The University of Michigan Animal Diversity Web
• The General Zoology website of the University of Minnesota presents an overview of the major groups in the Phylum Chordata.
• Animal Diversity. By Bill Tietjen, Bellarmine College. great pictures, great text, great web site.  Chordates start here
• The BIOMEDIA home page. from  the Biological Sciences Website; Glasgow University; Zoology Museum. terriffic!  Chordate start here
• The American Museum of Natural History provides an excellent overview of the classifiication and relationships of the vertebrates (including in more detail, the dinosaurs) through clear and to the point cladograms.
• Another site to try is Jack Conrad's, The Vertebrate Phylogeny Pages
• Cornell University Biodiversity Web Server
• The Biodiversity and Biological Collections Web Server at the University of New Orleans
• CSU BIOWEB Cal State Stanislaus

FIHES

1. Ichthyology Resources from The Biodiversity and Biological Collections Web Server at the University of New Orleans
2. An introduction to the major fish groups from the Florida Museum of Natural History
3. Fishes from SeaWorld/Busch Gardens
4. TNHC Ichthyology (Texas Natural History Collections)
   • TNHC North American freshwater fishes
5. Fish FAQ's Northeast Fisheries Science Center
6. California Academy of Sciences Catalog of Fishes
7. FishBase

AMPHIBIANS and REPTILES (Herpetology)

• Herpetology from UT Austin
• Herpetology Resources from The Biodiversity and Biological Collections Web Server at the University of New Orleans
• Amphibians species of the World---AMNH
• Caecilians web site
• The EMBL reptile data base
• Snakes of North America from Martin Schmidt, University of Pittsburgh

BIRDS

• Sibley and Monroe - Bird families of the World 
•   Bird Quest - from the Bonita Unified School District
• Bird Source - Cornell University
• The Virtual Birder

Mammals

TEXAS VERTEBRATES

Texas Natural History Collections (TMM) - Ichthyology

• TNHC Texas freshwater fishes

• Fishes of Texas

Texas-Outdoors' Fishing Net Gulf Coast Fish Identification Page

• Freshwater fish

• Saltwater Central fish

• Blue water fish

more Gulf Fish identification for Florida's regulated fish and their look-alikes.  Illustrations by Diane Rome Peebles

Texas Parks & Wildlife freshwater fish identification

Texas Parks & Wildlife aquatic animals of the Texas coast

TEXAS MEMORIAL MUSEUM

• Herps of Texas

Texas tetrapods FROM TEXAS PARKS & WILDLIFE

The Amphibians

• A key to the frogs
• A key to the salamanders

AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES OF TEXAS COUNTY CHECKLIST

• "These checklists of the amphibians and reptiles of each county in Texas were prepared by James R. Dixon and R. Kathryn Vaughan, based upon information from Amphibians and Reptiles of Texas, by J. R. Dixon (1987, Texas A&M University Press), and from new, documented records that have been reported since the book was published.".

Handbook of Texas online - Reptiles

Bird Checklists of Texas - from the USGS

Accepted Texas Species from the Texas State Bird Lists maintained by Texas Bird Records Committee

Texas Ornithological Society and Texas Gulf Coast Birding and Naturalists Web

Texas Birds from texas parks and wildlife

Birds of the upper Texas coast

Mammal Resources from Biology 4429

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