A major work on Mexican and Central American flora and fauna.

• Abbreviation (botany): Biol. Cent.-Amer., Bot.
• Publication: nonsequentially between 1879 and 1915, some volumes printed in several parts, most volumes printed over several years.
  • Contents: Zoology: Mammals (1 vol.), Birds (4 vols.), Reptilies and Batracians (1 vol.), Fishes (1 vol.), Molluscs (1 vol.), Arachnids: spiders and harvestmen (2 vols.), Arachnides: Scorpiones, Pedipalpi, and Solifugae (1 vol.), Arachnids: acarians (1 vol.), Insects: Coleoptera (8 vol., 18 parts), Insects: Hymenoptera (3 vols.), Insects: Lepidoptera-Rhopalocera (3 vols.), Insects: Lepidoptera-Heterocera (4 vols.), Insects: Diptera (3 vols.), Insects: Rhynchota-Heteroptera (2 vols.), Insects: Rhynchota-Heteroptera (2 vols.in 3 parts), Insects: Neuroptera. Ephemeridæ and Odonata (1 vol.), Insects: Orthoptera (2 vols.), Botany (5 vols.)
• Authors:
  • Editors: Frederick DuCane Godman & Osbert Salvin
  • Contributors: Edward Richard Alston, Albert Günther, Charles Tate Regan, Eduard Carl von Martens, Octavius Pickard-Cambridge, Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge, Reginald Innes Pocock, Otto Stoll, Henry Walter Bates, David Sharp, Andrew Matthews, George Lewis, Charles Owen Waterhouse, George Henry Horn, George Charles Champion, Henry Stephen Gorham, Walter F.H. Blandford, Karl Jordan, Martin Jacoby, Joseph Sugar Baly, Peter Cameron, Auguste-Henri Forel, Samuel Hubbard Scudder, Herbert Druce, Thomas de Grey Walsingham, Carl-Robert von Osten-Sacken, Samuel Wendell Williston, John Merton Aldrich, William Morton Wheeler, Frederik Maurits van der Wulp, William Lucas Distant, William Weekes Fowler, Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell, Alfred Edwin Eaton, Philip Powell Calvert, Henri De Saussure, Leo Zehntner, Alphonse Pictet, Auguste de Bormans, Lawrence Bruner, Albert Pitts Morse, Robert Walter Campbell Shelford

• Online access: Smithsonian, BHL

Links

• Lyal, C.H.C. 2011. The dating of the Biologia Centrali-Americana. Zoological bibliography 1(2): 67–100. BHL.