PhyloPic is an open database of life form silhouettes of organisms. Each image is associated with one or more taxonomic names and indicates roughly what the ancestral member of each taxon looked like. PhyloPic also stores a phylogenetic taxonomy of all organisms. This means that you can perform phylogenetic searches.
For example, if you need an image for a certain taxon, but there is no exact match in the database, you can easily search that taxon's supertaxa, subtaxa, and related taxa for an image that may work as well. All images are available for reuse under a Public Domain or Creative Commons license.
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