Uniprot has a list of the controlled vocabulary for common and scientific names of species listed over speclist.txt.
An example entry:
ACAER E 111511: N=Acanthodactylus erythrurus
C=Spanish fringe-toed lizard
S=Lacerta erythrura
In the example the N is the scientific binomial name(Canthodactylus erythrurus), C is the common name(Spanish fringe-toed lizard).
ACAER is the id code, 111511 is the code for the taxonomic node, E means it is a eukaryote, and S is a synonym of either name.
The list contains 25336 scientific names currently, which falls short of the ~2.5m species in GBIF, or the 10s, or 100s of millions that are estimated to exist. The Uniprot list does, however, represent every organism included in Uniprot, which is widely regarded as being among the most comprehensive protein databases that exist today.
GBIF
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) has an [API]()http://www.gbif.org/developer/species where you extract data for species names. Their database includes common names (aka vernacular names) when they have that, and often common names from different languages. Using this API, you can extract data and construct a name file for a particular taxa that you are interested in.
As an example, this is the list of the first 20 vernacular names found for Passer domesticus (House sparrow):
Using this type of search: api.gbif.org/v1/species?name=Passer%20domesticus, you can look for all info for a particular species, starting from either a scientific name or a common name (in example, Passer domesticus).
GBIF includes information in 1,643,948 species (and counting), but I don't know for what proportion they have common names (or where there are common names).
The website of Observado, an initiative to collect species observations worldwide, has global species lists in csv format that are as complete as possible. The plant list currently has 381.473 records. You can download local species names in more languages you might have heard from, from English to Russian and from Frysk to Dzongkha.
Note that these lists are meant for observations in the field, and hence also contain multispecies, hybrids and synonyms. But these can be filtered out easily.
Uniprot
Uniprot has a list of the controlled vocabulary for common and scientific names of species listed over speclist.txt.
An example entry:
In the example the
N
is the scientific binomial name (Canthodactylus erythrurus),C
is the common name (Spanish fringe-toed lizard).ACAER
is the id code,111511
is the code for the taxonomic node,E
means it is a eukaryote, andS
is a synonym of either name.The list contains 25336 scientific names currently, which falls short of the ~2.5m species in GBIF, or the 10s, or 100s of millions that are estimated to exist. The Uniprot list does, however, represent every organism included in Uniprot, which is widely regarded as being among the most comprehensive protein databases that exist today.
GBIF
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) has an [API]()http://www.gbif.org/developer/species where you extract data for species names. Their database includes common names (aka vernacular names) when they have that, and often common names from different languages. Using this API, you can extract data and construct a name file for a particular taxa that you are interested in.
As an example, this is the list of the first 20 vernacular names found for Passer domesticus (House sparrow):
Using this type of search: api.gbif.org/v1/species?name=Passer%20domesticus, you can look for all info for a particular species, starting from either a scientific name or a common name (in example, Passer domesticus).
GBIF includes information in 1,643,948 species (and counting), but I don't know for what proportion they have common names (or where there are common names).
Marine
For marine species, the World Register of Marine Species is probably the best place to find this information.
The Ocean Biogeographic Information System also contains a tremendous amount of marine species.
Generic
The website of Observado, an initiative to collect species observations worldwide, has global species lists in csv format that are as complete as possible. The plant list currently has 381.473 records. You can download local species names in more languages you might have heard from, from English to Russian and from Frysk to Dzongkha.
Note that these lists are meant for observations in the field, and hence also contain multispecies, hybrids and synonyms. But these can be filtered out easily.