He co-authored A Provisional Atlas of the Longhorn Beetle ( Coleoptera Cerambycidae ) ( 1999 ), a study of the distribution of a number of beetle species.

* Atlas Moth ( Attacus atlas ), a large saturniid moth species

* Atlas Turtle ( Colossochelys atlas ), a prehistoric giant tortoise, formerly in the genus Testudo

WMO publishes the International Cloud Atlas, the international standard cloud atlas since 1896.

With his son, cartographer Jorge Reinel and Lopo Homem, they participated in the making of the atlas known as " Lopo Homem-Reinés Atlas " or " Miller Atlas ", in 1519.

A common interpretation today is that Atlas was forced to hold the Earth on his shoulders, but Classical art shows Atlas holding the celestial spheres, not a globe ; the solidity of the marble globe born by the renowned Farnese Atlas may have aided the conflation, reinforced in the 16th century by the developing usage of atlas to describe a corpus of terrestrial maps.

The origin of the term atlas is a common source of misconception, perhaps because two different mythical figures named ' Atlas ' are associated with map making.

It was this Atlas to whom Gerardus Mercator was referring when he first used the name " atlas ", and he included a depiction of the King on the title-page.

: For other uses of " atlas ", see Atlas ( disambiguation ).

* Atlas moth Attacus atlas – The largest moth in the world

* Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, an atlas of ancient geography

**† Colossochelys atlas, Atlas Tortoise ( Extinct )

By 1660, at which point the atlas bore the appropriate name " Atlas Major ", there were 11 volumes, containing the work of about a hundred credited authors and engravers.

* Atlas of the Human Journey National Geographic presents an atlas of the human journey.

With his son, cartographer Jorge Reinel and Lopo Homem, they participated in the making of the atlas known as " Lopo Homem-Reinés Atlas " or " Miller Atlas ", in 1519.

However, the final release of the atlas was not the end of the project ; the Atlas is still being improved upon.

Also, other projects including the human brain atlas, developing mouse brain, developing human brain, mouse connectivity, non-human primate atlas, and the mouse spinal cord atlas are being developed through the Allen Institute for Brain Science in conjunction with the Allen Mouse Brain Atlas.

The mouse brain atlas was the original project of the Allen Brain Atlas and was finished in 2006.

The Allen Developing Mouse Brain Atlas is an atlas which tracks gene expression throughout the development of a C57BL / 6 mouse brain.

* Atlas ( mythology ), a Titan who bore the spheres of the heavens ; inspiring the widely used image of a man carrying a celestial sphere on his back or shoulders ( also known as Atlas Telamon or " enduring Atlas ")

* Atlas ( moon ), a moon of Saturn

* Atlas ( crater ), a prominent impact crater on the Moon

* Atlas ( star ), a triple star system in the Pleiades cluster

* Atlas ( anatomy ), the topmost cervical vertebra of the spine

* Atlas Bear ( Ursus arctos crowtheri ), an extinct subspecies of the Brown Bear

* Atlas Flycatcher ( Ficedula speculigera ), a songbird species sometimes included in the Eurasian Pied Flycatcher

* Atlas ( topology ), a collection of local coordinate charts in mathematics

* Atlas Computer ( Manchester ) ( 1962 – 1971 ), an early computer built at the University of Manchester

** Titan ( computer ), also known as the Atlas 2, its successor

* The Atlas ( video game ), a Japan-exclusive strategy video game

* Atlas ( album ), an album by Mexican electro-pop band Kinky

* Atlas ( band ), a rock band from Christchurch, New Zealand

* Atlas ( film ), a 1961 movie by Roger Corman

* Atlas Games ( company ), a publisher of role-playing and card games

* The Atlas ( novel ), by American author William T. Vollmann

* Atlas ( magazine ), Turkish monthly magazine on geography, environment, history and culture

* Atlas Comics ( 1950s ), the company that evolved into Marvel Comics

* Atlas ( comics series ), a comic book series by Dylan Horrocks

* Atlas ( DC Comics ), a fictional character published by DC Comics

* Atlas Cedar, a cedar tree sometimes included in Cedrus libani, sometimes treated as species C. atlantica

Peter Raven, past President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ( AAAS ), states in the foreword to their publication AAAS Atlas of Population and Environment: " We have driven the rate of biological extinction, the permanent loss of species, up several hundred times beyond its historical levels, and are threatened with the loss of a majority of all species by the end of the 21st century.

Deer are widely distributed, with indigenous representatives in all continents except Antarctica and Australia, though Africa has only one native species, the Red Deer, confined to the Atlas Mountains in the northwest of the continent.

Examples include the Barbary Macaque, the Atlas Bear ( Africa's only species of bear ; now extinct ), the Barbary Leopard, the Barbary stag, Barbary Sheep, the Barbary Lion ( extinct in the wild ), the Atlas Mountain Badger, the North African Elephant ( extinct ), the African Aurochs ( extinct ), Cuvier's Gazelle, the Northern Bald Ibis, Dippers, the Atlas mountain viper, the Atlas Cedar, the European Black Pine, and the Algerian Oak.

Habitat for 187 species ( indigenous and non-indigenous ) according to the Atlas of NSW Wildlife.

Some areas have been reforested since 1860 with a variety of hardwood trees ( such as holm oaks and beeches ) as well as coniferous species, such as Atlas cedars and larches.

Represented species include Giant Centipede, Leafcutter Ant, Flower Mantis, Vietnamese walking stick, Atlas Beetle, American Burying Beetle, Sunburst Diving Beetle, Water Scorpion, Brown Widow Spider, Brown Recluse Spider, Cobalt blue tarantula, Texas brown tarantula, and Egyptian Fattail scorpion.

Quedenfeldtia is a small genus of attractive gecko species, commonly known as Atlas Day Geckos.

Atlas Pied Flycatcher or Atlas Flycatcher ( Ficedula speculigera ) is a bird in the an Old World flycatcher family, one of the four species of Western Palearctic black-and-white flycatchers ; it is endemic as a breeding species to North-west Africa.

In the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, it occurs at 1, 370 – 2, 200 m ( 4, 500 – 7, 200 ft ) in pure forests or mixed with Abies species and Juniperus thurifera.

Found in the Atlas Mountains of Algeria and Morocco with a small population, of unknown origin, in Gibraltar, the Barbary macaque is one of the best-known Old World monkey species.

The " Atlas of Rüppell's Travels in Northern Africa " ( 1826 – 30 ) included an ornithological section by Cretzschmar describing around thirty new species, including Meyer's Parrot, Nubian Bustard, Goliath Heron, Streaked Scrub Warbler and Cretzschmar's Bunting.

Cirsium vulgare ( Spear Thistle ) is a species of the genus Cirsium, native throughout most of Europe ( north to 66 ° N, locally 68 ° N ), western Asia ( east to the Yenisei Valley ), and northwestern Africa ( Atlas Mountains ).

* Atlas of Living Australia species page, with distribution map

It also inhabits the Atlas Mountains region between Morocco and Tunisia in northwestern Africa, being the only species of deer to inhabit Africa.