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Botanical Links
ASPT Links and Databases (resources listed by the American Society of Plant Taxonomists)
BPH (Botanico-Periodicum-Huntianum — an index of botanical periodicals)
Index Herbariorum (a global directory of public herbaria)
International Code of Botanical Nomenclature
IPNI (International Plant Names Index)
Kew Bibliographic Databases (portal for: KR - Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature; PMBD - Plant Micromorphological Bibliographic Database; EBBD - Economic Botany Bibliographic Database)
Smithsonian Botanical Links
Tropicos (Missouri Botanical Garden databases)
USDA Plants Database (information about vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories)
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Species Focus
Alytes muletensis
 Alytes muletensis, the Mallorcan midwife toad, is endemic to the
island of Mallorca and one of the many endangered species which are
susceptible to the disease chytridiomycosis. Chytridiomycosis is
caused by the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and has been
linked to rapidly declining amphibian populations in montane
throughout the globe. Like other midwife toads, the male pictured here
is acting as a "midwife" by carrying a string of fertilized eggs until
hatching.
Photo: Matthew Fisher
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