Vertebrate Taxonomy Ontology

Comprehensive hierarchy of extinct and extant vertebrate taxa.

OntoBee AberOWL OLS Bioregistry

The Vertebrate Taxonomy Ontology includes both extinct and extant vertebrates, aiming to provide one comprehensive hierarchy. The hierarchy backbone for extant taxa is based on the NCBI taxonomy. Since the NCBI taxonomy only includes species associated with archived genetic data, to complement this, we also incorporate taxonomic information across the vertebrates from the Paleobiology Database (PaleoDB). The Teleost Taxonomy Ontology (TTO) and AmphibiaWeb (AWeb) are incorporated to provide a more authoritative hierarchy and a richer set of names for specific taxonomic groups.

Products
vto.owl
vto.obo
Usages
User
http://phenoscape.org
Description
Phenoscape uses VTO to annotate systematics data