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Goals: This database aims to provide a list of plants and animals that are known to occur in the Bocas del Toro Archipelago, the Bahía Almirante, Laguna de Chiriquí, and the surrounding mainland on the Caribbean coast of Panama. Users can search for a particular term or browse the database by group. When available descriptions and photographs have been included to aid in species identification. We hope that this database is useful for scientists planning work at the Bocas del Toro Research Station, field workers trying to identify organisms they have seen in the field, and students working in this part of Panama.
Acknowledgements: We thank all the people who have provided observations and photographs for this database. Individual references are given for each species.
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Please help us: Please send any suggestions of revision, updates, photographs, or data you would like to have included in the database to Rachel Collin: collinr@si.edu.
Disclaimer: We have endeavored to include reliable, documented species identifications in this database. All included observations are referenced to either (1) a published paper, (2) a personal observation, or (3) a museum specimen. Where possible we have included a photograph and as much locality information as possible. This is a work in progress and probably represents a biased sample of the most common and conspicuous flora and fauna of the area.