Taiwan Fisheries Research Institute – Digital archives of coastal and offshore specimens

Wei-Chuan Chiang

doi:10.15468/xvxngy

Taiwan Fisheries Research Institute – Digital archives of coastal and offshore specimens

Citation

Chiang W (2014). Taiwan Fisheries Research Institute – Digital archives of coastal and offshore specimens. TELDAP. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/xvxngy accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-08-30.

Description

With funding support from National Science Council’s Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Program (TELDAP), the Eastern Marine Biology Research Center of Taiwan Fisheries Research Institute (TFRI, http://www.tfrin.gov.tw) digitized its museum collection of eastern Taiwan fish specimens. Between March 2005 and July 2012, the Center accumulated data on 3,300 specimens, covering 167 families, 472 genera and 853 species. Among them, the families with the most records are Istiophoridae, Scombridae, Carangidae, Labridae and Lutjanidae. All the data are shown on TFRI’s website “Fisheries Information (http://www.tfrin.gov.tw/lp.asp?ctNode=840&CtUnit=144&BaseDSD=77&mp=3). Furthermore, the data have been incorporated into Academia Sinica’s “The Fish Database of Taiwan, http://fishdb.sinica.edu.tw” and the global fish database “FishBase, http://www.fishbase.org” so that the international community can better understand the fish diversity in eastern Taiwan and increase specimen inquiries and exchanges.

Taxonomic Coverages

The data cover 167 families, 472 genera and 853 species of eastern Taiwan fish specimens. Among them, the families with the most records are Istiophoridae, Scombridae, Carangidae, Labridae and Lutjanidae.

Istiophoridae
rank: family
Scombridae
rank: family
Carangidae
rank: family
Labridae
rank: family
Lutjanidae
rank: family

Geographic Coverages

taiwan

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Wei-Chuan Chiang
originator
position: Research Assistant
Eastern Marine Biology Research Center, Fisheries Research Institute
No. 22, Wucyuan Rd.
Chenggong Township, Taitung County
TAIWAN
TW
email: wcchiang@mail.tfrin.gov.tw

Wei-Chuan Chiang
metadata author
position: Research Assistant
Eastern Marine Biology Research Center, Fisheries Research Institute
No. 22, Wucyuan Rd.
Chenggong Township, Taitung County
TAIWAN
TW
email: wcchiang@mail.tfrin.gov.tw

Wei-Chuan Chiang
user
position: Research Assistant
Eastern Marine Biology Research Center, Fisheries Research Institute
No. 22, Wucyuan Rd.
Chenggong Township, Taitung County
TAIWAN
TW
email: wcchiang@mail.tfrin.gov.tw

Wei-Chuan Chiang
administrative point of contact
position: Research Assistant
Eastern Marine Biology Research Center, Fisheries Research Institute
No. 22, Wucyuan Rd.
Chenggong Township, Taitung County
TAIWAN
TW
email: wcchiang@mail.tfrin.gov.tw