Dataset from Zenodo · Mammal Diversity Database
Mammal Diversity Database
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- CC BY 4.0commercial use allowedLicense text
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- Formats
- CSV, TOML
- Size
- 76 MB
- Updated
- Jul 29, 2026
Description
Accurate taxonomy is central to the study of biological diversity, as it provides the needed evolutionary framework for taxon sampling and interpreting results. While the number of recognized species in the class Mammalia has increased through time, tabulation of those increases has relied on the sporadic release of revisionary compendia like the Mammal Species of the World (MSW) series. Here, we present the Mammal Diversity Database (MDD), a digital, publicly accessible, and updateable list of all mammalian species, now available online: https://mammaldiversity.org . The MDD will continue to be updated as manuscripts describing new species and higher taxonomic changes are released. Starting from the baseline of the 3rd edition of MSW (MSW3), we performed a review of taxonomic changes published since 2004 and digitally linked species names to their original descriptions and subsequent revisionary articles in an interactive, hierarchical database. The MDD provides the mammalogical community with an updateable online database of taxonomic changes, joining digital efforts already established for amphibians (AmphibiaWeb, AMNH’s Amphibian Species of the World), birds (e.g…
Description from Zenodo, shortened.
Files (7)
- CSVMETA_v2.5.csv28 kB
- CSVTypeSpecimenMetadata_v2.5.csv18 kB
- CSVMDD_v2.5_6904species.csv8.9 MB
- CSVDiff-AllChanges_v2.4-v2.5.csv1.8 MB
- TOMLrelease.toml544 byte
- CSVDiff_v2.4-v2.5.csv29 kB
- CSVSpecies_Syn_v2.5.csv65 MB
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