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Catalogue of Life (COL) is a global partnership of organizations working together to provide a comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date information resource about the world’s known species. COL does not hold any species data itself but instead federates data published by many data providers. These data providers often also act as data users (for example, those using species names in taxonomic databases, ecological studies, etc). COL also acts as a registry of nomenclatural databases.

COL works by pulling together, cleaning, standardising and integrating the data provided by the different data providers into a single coherent resource which is freely available online. COL currently holds information on more than 2.2 million species, organized into a taxonomic hierarchy of 182,000+ groups. COL is used by taxonomists, ecologists, conservationists, policy makers, and educators around the world. COL’s taxonomic backbone now underpins many other global initiatives and services such as GBIF, WoRMS, and the IUCN Red List.

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