Description of the project:

Information System ZooIntW is intended for gathering author's projects on animal systematics. It will include:

• databases with hierarchical classification of animals of the World or regional faunae, which consist of valid scientific names of taxa, including synonyms.
• databases with the lists of collected specimens deposited in the ZIN collection as well as in other museums, including all data from labels.
• databases of type specimens of the ZIN collection.
• databases of number species in higher taxa in World, USSR, Russia and other regions.
• geographical databases used in classification of locality data from the labels.

Standards and procedures of development and maintenance of databases, elaborated in frameworks of the project ZOOINT, are available on the separate page.

Authors of project:
Principal investigator: Alexander F. ALIMOV,
Main participants: Mikhail B. DIANOV, Andrei L. LOBANOV, Igor S. SMIRNOV,

Information System of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences ZooInt is supported by RFBR, grants   ¹  93-04-21216, 96-07-89086,
99-07-90315 (1993-2001).