FishBase

FishBase is a Database of information on the Poisson S accessible on the Web.

In December 2006, it contained the description of more than 29700 Espèces, 223600 vernacular names in hundreds of languages, more than 43800 images, and more than 39300 references to scientific publications.

Wikipédia

FishBase is one of the most important references of wikipédia concerning the Ichtyologie and in particular the description and the identification of the Poisson S. As regards the Taxonomy, fishbase is often in dissension with ITIS; In which case, two taxonomies are presented in wikipédia. Example of conflict: Rajiformes

Direction

Since the year 2000, FishBase is directed by the FishBase Consortium. This consortium is consisted (in the alphabetical order):

Africamuseum, Tervuren
Aristotle University off Thessaloniki, Thesaloniki
Fisheries off Centers University British Columbia, Vancouver
United Nations for the food and agriculture, Rome
, Kiel
national Muséum of natural history, Paris
Swedish Museum off Natural History, Stockholm
WorldFish Center, Penang

External bonds

www.fishbase.org - the official site
filaman.ifm-geomar.de - the German mirror
www.fishbase.se - the Swedish mirror
the American mirror
fishbase.mnhn.fr - the mirror lodged by the national Natural history museum of history naturalness of Paris

Category: Ichtyology Category: Online encyclopedia

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