Smitsonian National Museum of Natural History  Department of Vertebrate Zoology

       Division of Mammals

Mammal Species of the World (MSW)


We are currently underway in the planning and development stages of creating a new and improved online query and export facility for the updated MSW3 data. We expect to launch the new application in early 2008. Please check back for news and updates related to the facility. In the meantime, the MSW3 authors in collaboration with Bucknell University have created an interim query presentation at: http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/.

Also, the new complete list of species as recognized in MSW3 are available from the following:
Wilson, D. E., and D. M. Reeder (eds). 2005. Mammal Species of
   the World. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp. (Available
   from Johns Hopkins University Press, 1-800-537-5487 or
   (410) 516-6900 http://www.press.jhu.edu/.)

This currently existing online list was compiled under the auspices of the American Society of Mammalogists. Copyright 1993 Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC USA. All rights are reserved. The data in this checklist of mammal species of the world are being presented for non-commercial, personal, and collections management use only. Copying or redistributing these data in any manner for personal or corporate gain is not permitted.


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