Symbiota Portals

What are Symbiota portals? Each portal listed below represents a collaborative community of collections and researchers. Most portals have a specific regional and/or taxonomic scope, while others are institution-based. All portals include voucher-based occurrence records, and some additionally include observational data.

Who can join a portal? Symbiota portals are for collections of all sizes—large to small! You may “live manage” your data in a portal and use it as your content management system, or you may upload a copy or “snapshot” of your dataset. To join an existing portal or try using Symbiota in our demo portal, fill out this form and email help@symbiota.org to let us know you’re interested.

Don’t see a portal that meets your needs? You can deploy and maintain your own Symbiota portal using the open source code and your own IT infrastructure, or you can contract with the Symbiota Support Hub to create and maintain a new portal for you. For more information, contact the Hub at help@symbiota.org.

Portal Name & Link	Taxonomic Scope	Geographic Scope	SSH- Hosted*	Other Notes
Academy of Natural Sciences Entomology Collection	Invertebrates (insects, other arthropods)	Global		Maintained by the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
African Herbaria	Plants	Africa	✅
All Asia	Plants	Asia	✅
Bhutan Biodiversity Specimen Portal	All	Bhutan
Big Bee Library	Invertebrates (bees)	Global	✅
BiodiverseNB	All	New Brunswick, Canada	✅	Specimens of the New Brunswick Museum
BioGator	All	UF Campus, Gainesville, FL, USA	✅
Bolus Herbarium	Plants & Fungi	Primarily South Africa		Specimens of the Bolus Herbarium. Maintained by the University of Cape Town
Channel Islands Biodiversity Information System (Cal-IBIS)	All	Channel Islands, CA, USA		Maintained by the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and Nature Conservancy
Consortium of California Herbaria (CCH2)	Plants	California Floristic Province, USA	✅
Consortium of Bryophyte Herbaria	Plants (bryophytes)	Global	✅
Consortium of Lichen Herbaria	Fungi (lichens)	Global	✅
Consortium of Midwest Herbaria	Plants	Midwestern USA (IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, WI)	✅	Part of the SEINet Portal Network
Consortium of Northeastern Herbaria (CNH)	Plants	Northeastern USA & Eastern Canada	✅
Consortium of Pacific Herbaria	Plants	Pacific Islands	✅
Consortium of Small Vertebrate Collections	Vertebrates	Global	✅
Consortium of Southern Rocky Mountain Herbaria (SoRo)	Plants	Southern Rocky Mountains USA (CO, ID, MT, WY)	✅	Part of the SEINet Portal Network
Cooperative Taxonomic Resource for American Myrtaceae (CoTRAM)	Plants (Myrtaceae)	North and South America	✅
Cretaceous Vertebrates of Madagascar	Vertebrates (fossils)	Madagascar (Cretaceous)	✅
Documenting Ethnobiology in Mexico and Central America (DEMCA)	All	Mexico and Central America	✅
Ecdysis	Invertebrates (arthropods)	Global	✅
EcoFloras of North America	Plants	North America	✅	Part of the SEINet Portal Network
Flora of Wisconsin	Plants	Wisconsin		Maintained by University of Wisconsin-Madison
Gabon Biodiversity	All	Gabon / West Africa	✅
Great Lakes Invasives Network	All	Midwest USA		Maintained by the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Guatemala – Portal for Biological Collections	All	Guatemala / Latin America	✅
Herbario Virtual Austral Americano (HVAA)	Plants	southern South America (Argentina & Chile)	✅
Illinois Natural History Survey	All	Midwest, USA		Maintained by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Indian River Lagoon Species Inventory	All	Florida, USA
Intermountain Herbaria Consortium	Plants	Great Basin region USA (UT, NV)	✅	Part of the SEINet Portal Network
International Taphonomy Reference Collection (ITRC)	Modern and fossil bone assemblages	Global	✅
Invert-E-Base	Invertebrates	Global	✅	Does not include terrestrial arthropods
Lundell Plant Biodiversity Portal	Plants	Texas, Mexico, Mesoamerica		Maintained by the University of Texas at Austin
Macroalgal Herbarium Consortium	Algae	Global	✅
Madrean Discovery & Madrean Archipelago Biodiversity Assessment Project	All	Madrean Archipelago (southern USA and northern Mexico)	✅	Part of the SEINet Portal Network & CVColl
Mid-Atlantic Herbaria Consortium	Plants	Mid-Atlantic USA (NY, NJ, PA, MD, DE, DC)	✅	Part of the SEINet Portal Network
Minnesota Biodiversity Atlas	All	Minnesota, USA		Maintained by the Bell Museum at University of Minnesota
Monarch	All	Global		Maintained by the California Academy of Sciences
Mycology Collections Data Portal (MycoPortal)	Fungi	Global		Maintained by the Illinois Natural History Survey
National Database of Biodiversity of Ecuador (BNDB)	All	Ecuador		Maintained by INABIO
North American Network of Small Herbaria (NANSH)	Plants	North America	✅	Part of the SEINet Portal Network
Northeastern Asia Flora	Plants	Asia		Maintained by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences of Seoul
NEON Biorepository	All	NEON field sites	✅
Neotropical Flora Portal	Plants	Central and South America	✅
Northern Great Plains Herbaria	Plants	North-central USA (ND, SD, NE, KS, MN, IA, MO, OK, TX)	✅	Part of the SEINet Portal Network
Open Herbarium	Plants	Global	✅
OregonFlora	Plants	Oregon		Maintained by Oregon State University
Pacific Island Land Snail Biodiversity Repository (PILSBRy)	Invertebrates (terrestrial gastropods)	Pacific Islands	✅
Paleobotany	Plants (fossils)	Global	✅
Paleo Data Portal	Fossils	Global	✅	Under construction!
PteridoPortal	Plants (ferns, extant & fossils)	Global	✅
Red de Herbarios Mexicanos	Plants	Mexico	✅	Part of the SEINet Portal Network
SEINet New Mexico-Arizona Chapter	Plants	New Mexico and Arizona, USA	✅	Part of the SEINet Portal Network
Southeast Regional Network of Expertise and Collections (SERNEC)	Plants	Southeastern USA	✅	Part of the SEINet Portal Network
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Collections	All	Panama	✅
Symbiota Collections of Arthropods Network (SCAN)	Invertebrates (Arthropods)	Global		Maintained by the University of Arizona
Tardigrade	Tardigrades	Global	✅
Texas and Oklahoma Regional Consortium of Herbaria (TORCH)	Plants	Texas and Oklahoma, USA	✅	Part of the SEINet Portal Network
University of Colorado Museum of Natural History Herbarium (COLO)	Plants	Global		Maintained by the University of Colorado at Boulder
USDA Agricultural Research Service	Plants, Fungi	Global
The Weevil Portal	Invertebrates (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea)	Global	✅	Under construction! Snapshot data only

*SSH-hosted = the Symbiota team at KU provides the technical infrastructure for this portal