Fauna Europaea is a database of the scientific names and distribution of all living multicellular European land and fresh-water animals.
It serves as a standard taxonomic source for animal taxonomy within the Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure (PESI).
[1] As of June 2020[update], Fauna Europaea reported that their database contained 235,708 taxon names and 173,654 species names.
[2] Its construction was initially funded by the European Commission (2000–2004).
The project was co-ordinated by the University of Amsterdam which launched the first version in 2004.