Welcome to IdentifyLife

IdentifyLife is a worldwide collaborative project to help identify the world's living organisms.

IdentifyLife provides an index and access to identification keys and other identification resources from throughout the World Wide Web.
Use IdentifyLife whenever you need to identify an unknown organism.

IdentifyLife also provides access to resources for builders of identification keys, including character lists from existing keys, character state images, standardised (normative) character ontologies, and glossaries.

If you are new to IdentifyLife, click on an image below to find out more...

Register your interest in IdentifyLife

IdentifyLife is still under development and features are being continually added.

Registering your interest will allow you to keep up to date with progress on the IdentifyLife project.