FISHBASE
FISHBASE Global Fishes data System
Fishbase is a global biodiversity information system on finfish for different specialists such as researchers, zoologists, ecologists, teachers, fisheries managers, etc..
FishBase covers >33,000 fish species compiled from >52,000 references in partnership with >2,000 collaborators: >300,000 common names and >55,000 pictures. Our website gathers more than 700,000 visits monthly. Its initial goal to provide key facts on population dynamics for 200 major commercial species has now grown to having a wide range of information on all species currently known in the world: taxonomy, biology, trophic ecology, life history, and uses, as well as historical data reaching back to 250 years.
FishBase is currently hosted by the Quantitative Aquatics, Incorporated (Q-quatics), a non-stock, non-profit, non-governmental organization engaged in the development and management of global databases on aquatic organisms, including their distribution and ecology.
FishBase is scientifically guided by a Consortium of 12 international members (see below) including the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, MNHN (Paris, France).
Scientist from UMR BOREA contribute to validate update and add data in FishBase and participate to the annual meeting of the consortium to fix the scientific objectives.
BOREA contact: patrice.pruvost@mnhn.fr
