ZOBODAT is an online catalogue of taxonomic, bibliographic, author and specimen data,[1][2][3] from mainly German language sources.
The database is published by Oberösterreichische Landesmuseen [de][4][5] and was founded in 1972 by Ernst Reichl [de].
At August 16, 2022, it contained 3,476,485 occurrence records,[6] 1,089 journal records (together with their contents),[7] 25,379 authors (including their publications, and specimens collected and determined),[8] and information on 62,977 species.
[9] The reader may access the information in German, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese or Hungarian.