Fauna Europaea provides a public web-service with an index of scientific names (including
important synonyms) of all living European land and freshwater animals, their geographical
distribution at country level (up to the Urals, excluding the Caucasus region), and some
additional information. The Fauna Europaea project covers about 230,000 taxonomic
names, including 130,000 accepted species and 14,000 accepted subspecies, which is
much more than the originally projected number of 100,000 species. This represents a
huge effort by more than 400 contributing specialists throughout Europe and is a unique
(standard) reference suitable for many users in science, government, industry, nature
conservation and education