Discipline support

Specify collections management software was designed, and continues to support all natural history discipline types.

Specify has recently added support for geology collections, with functionality and tables that support geology, but are also relevant to biological collections.

Our data model is extremely customizable so the databases can be adapted for different disciplines and individual collections’ workflows. The SCC currently has members using Specify software for the following collections (and many subdisciplines within them):

  • Arachnology

  • Arthropods

  • Botany

    • Biocultural Collection

    • Bryophytes

    • Cryptogamic Botany

    • Diatoms

    • Fungi

    • Lichens

    • Palynology

    • Phycology

    • Seeds

    • Vascular Plants

  • Entomology

    • Amber

    • Apoidea, Chalcidoidea

    • Butterflies

    • Coleoptera

    • Homoptera

    • Lepidoptera

    • Orthopthera

  • Geology

  • Herpetology

    • Amphibia

    • Reptiles

    • Tortoises

  • Ichthyology

    • Fish Sounds

  • Invertebrate Paleontology

    • Micropaleontology

  • Invertebrate Zoology

    • Anthropods

    • Aquatic Invertebrates

    • Arthropods

    • Cephalopods

    • Crustacea

    • Diatoms

    • Hydrobiology

    • Shells

    • Crustacea

    • Marine Invasive, Biosecurity

    • Marine Invertebrates

    • Coral Ecology

    • Myriapoda

    • Nematode

    • Non-Molluscan

    • Oligochaeta

    • Shells

    • Tunicates

  • Malacology

    • Mollusks

  • Mammalology

    • Archaeozoology Comparative Mammals

    • Marine Mammals

    • Primatology

  • Mineralogy

    • Petrology/Oryctology

  • Mycology

  • Myriapod

  • Ornithology

  • Paleobotany

  • Paleoentomology

  • Paleozoology

  • Petrology

  • Vertebrate Paleontology

  • Zooarcheology

  • Zoology