Biodiversity Heritage Library uses Global Names Architecture's Global Names Recognition and Discovery (GNRD), a taxonomic name recognition algorithm, to search through all of the texts digitized in BHL and extract the scientific names. Searching for a name will return a list of all the individual pages where that name occurs. NOTE: The text is currently uncorrected text automatically generated from Optical Character Recognition (OCR) programs and is of variable quality for each scanned book.

Here are some examples of scientific names that you can find in the Biodiversity Heritage Library: