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Fig. 2. The home page of the Biodiversity of Singapore website. 
2: https://singapore.biodiversity.online/) as individual species pages (Fig. 3). This 
includes specimens from multiple groups, including Vertebrata, Crustacea, Mollusca, 
Coleoptera, Odonata, Blattodea, Ephemeroptera, Trichoptera, Plecoptera, Hemiptera 
and Diptera (Fig. 4). Additionally, images for more than 200 plant species were also 
added into the database. Table 2 shows the breakdown by taxa. These high resolution 
images allow for a close-up view of the finer details of the individual species as well 
(Fig. 5). 
Discussion 
We set out to use a wide variety of techniques to tackle species identification problems 
and to create identification tools for the future. As documented in the Results section, 
we succeeded to various degrees. In addition, the material that was collected during 
the project continues to be studied and new species are found and imaged every week. 
The Faunal Ecology teams extensively surveyed the aquatic habitats and 
collected a large number of specimens (Ho et al, 2018; Fim et al., 2018). Because 
the processing of these samples was time-consuming, we only obtained them fairly 
late. Nevertheless, our preliminary results indicate that the species diversity of Nee 
Soon is very high and that most species found in the aquatic environments of Nee 
Soon freshwater swamp forest are distinctly different from what is found in the nearby 
reservoirs. A good example are the chironomid midges where preliminary sampling 
revealed more than 250 species in Nee Soon, while only about 40 species were found 
