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nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Database of European land and fresh-water animals</div><p><b>Fauna Europaea</b> is a database of the <a href="/wiki/Scientific_name" class="mw-redirect" title="Scientific name">scientific names</a> and distribution of all living <a href="/wiki/Multicellular" class="mw-redirect" title="Multicellular">multicellular</a> <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">European</a> land and fresh-water animals. It serves as a standard <a href="/wiki/Taxonomic_database" title="Taxonomic database">taxonomic source</a> for animal taxonomy within the <a href="/wiki/Pan-European_Species_directories_Infrastructure" title="Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure">Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure</a> (PESI).<sup id="cite_ref-NCBI_-_Fauna_Europaea_–_all_European_animal_species_on_the_web_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NCBI_-_Fauna_Europaea_–_all_European_animal_species_on_the_web-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of June 2020<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fauna_Europaea&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, Fauna Europaea reported that their database contained 235,708 taxon names and 173,654 species names.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Its construction was initially funded by the <a href="/wiki/European_Commission" title="European Commission">European Commission</a> (2000–2004). The project was co-ordinated by the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Amsterdam" title="University of Amsterdam">University of Amsterdam</a> which launched the first version in 2004. The <a href="/wiki/Natural_History_Museum,_Berlin" title="Natural History Museum, Berlin">Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin</a> took over the hosting of the web portal in 2013,<sup id="cite_ref-NCBI_-_Fauna_Europaea_–_all_European_animal_species_on_the_web_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NCBI_-_Fauna_Europaea_–_all_European_animal_species_on_the_web-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a new web portal was launched in 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fauna_Europaea&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-NCBI_-_Fauna_Europaea_–_all_European_animal_species_on_the_web-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-NCBI_-_Fauna_Europaea_–_all_European_animal_species_on_the_web_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-NCBI_-_Fauna_Europaea_–_all_European_animal_species_on_the_web_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFde_JongVerbeekMichelsenBjørn_Pde2014" class="citation journal cs1">de Jong, Y; 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