A package of computer programs for handling taxonomic databases.

A package of programs is described which processes taxonomic data, suitable to use when preparing monographs, handbooks, Floras or Faunas, in which species or other taxa are described and identified. There is also an interactive program for specimen identification, and conversion routines which prepare data for numerical taxonomy (clustering and cladistics). The programs are equally suitable for botany or for zoology, or even for non-biological data.