FishBase

doi:10.48580/dgjc7-37v

FishBase

Citation

Froese, R., & Pauly, D. (2024). FishBase (version Feb 2018). In O. Bánki, Y. Roskov, M. Döring, G. Ower, D. R. Hernández Robles, C. A. Plata Corredor, T. Stjernegaard Jeppesen, A. Örn, T. Pape, D. Hobern, S. Garnett, H. Little, R. E. DeWalt, K. Ma, J. Miller, T. Orrell, R. Aalbu, J. Abbott, C. Aedo, et al., Catalogue of Life (Version 2024-11-18). Catalogue of Life, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgjc7-37v

Description

FishBase is a global information system with extensive information on all species and subspecies of fish. In addition to the data contributed to the Catalogue of Life, the original FishBase database also includes descriptive, biological, ecological, physiological and conservation data and more, and onward links to information in many other databases. Data entry and maintenance is done mainly at the FishBase Information and Research Group, Inc. (FIN) in the Philippines since the 1st January 2011 in collaboration with many colleagues and institutions around the world. The team was previously hosted in WorldFish since the start in 1990 (formerly ICLARM then called WorldFish Center between 2001-2013, and now WorldFish since 2013). FishBase is supported by a Consortium of nine institutions around the world that acts as the Scientific Committee for FIN. FishBase is funded mainly by the European Commission, and by several other donors. FishBase uses data and information from the Catalog of Fishes (CofF) developed by W.N. Eschmeyer at the California Academy of Science. In particular, FishBase uses CofF as the most complete and up-to-date fish nomenclator, and as a taxonomic authority list in a collaborative work of synchronization of the two databases.

Taxonomic Coverages

Fishes

Geographic Coverages

Global

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Rainer Froese
editor
Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research
Kiel
DE

Daniel Pauly
editor
University of British Columbia
Vancouver
CA

administrative point of contact
Quantitative Aquatics (Q-quatics)

administrative point of contact
WorldFish

administrative point of contact
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

administrative point of contact
Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN)

administrative point of contact
Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA)

administrative point of contact
Swedish Museum of Natural History (NRM)

administrative point of contact
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)

administrative point of contact
Chinese Academy of Fisheries Science (CAFS)

Nicolas Bailly
administrative point of contact
email: bailly@zoology.ubc.ca