PROPE-taxon (Web Accessible Taxonomic Expertise in MARBEF: PROviding an e-Platform for the European Taxonomists) is a Responsive Mode Project undertaken within the MarBEF EU Network of Excellence, funded under the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Union. It aims at providing European taxonomists with a community driven e-platform that acts as a web-accessible depository for integrated taxonomic knowledge systems (databases, keys, biogeographic data) based upon existing software and technologies and to use this mechanism to open up relevant taxonomic expertise to the MARBEF community and to establish interaction with the European taxonomists and the corresponding Network of the Natural History Museums for needed (missing) expertise.

There are two ways of viewing the taxonomic information on this site.

1. accessing the species descriptions by clicking on one of the taxa listed below. These are all descriptions that are available on this scratchpad site so far.

2. accessing the "panel page" for a taxon by browsing the tree on the left. Those pages provide not only the description of a species but further aggregated information from external sources. However, descriptions are only available if they have already been added to this scratchpad site, but other content might be available even if a description is missing.

These are the taxa for which a description is already available:

Scratchpads developed and conceived by: Vince Smith, Simon Rycroft & Dave Roberts