General Biology of Fishes
"a global information system with all you ever wanted to know about fishes. FishBase is a relational database with information to cater to different professionals such as research scientists, fisheries managers, zoologists and many more."
www.fishbase.org
"taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world"
www.itis.gov
A wealth of information about fish.
Florida Museum of Natural History
"Our scientists partner with fishermen, environmentalists, and state and federal fishery managers to build knowledge of commercial fish species, critical habitats, fishing gear technology, and human behaviors to enable more effective fishery management in the Gulf of Maine."
Gulf of Maine Research Institute
Wikipedia
Specific Kinds of Fishes (By Common Name)
Bluegill Lepomis macrochirus
DigiMorph
Bowfin Amia Calva
DigiMorph
Channel Catfish Ictalurus punctatus
DigiMorph
Coelecanth Latimeria chalumnae
DigiMorph
Maryland Department of Natural Resources.
Mekong Catfish gigas
National Geographic
Cowfishes family Ostraciidae
www.cowfishes.com
Devil's Hole Pupfish Cyprinodon diabolis
Story about the Devil's Hole pupfish that accompanies a segment of Nature about Death Valley.
Nature, PBS
Stout Infantfish Schindleria brevipinguis
Description of species.
Watson, W., and Walker, H.J. Jr., 2004.
Mudskippers subfamily Oxudercinae
By Gianluca Polgar, Themudskipper,org.
Seahorsess subfamily Oxudercinae
NOVA Online
Sunfish family Molidae
oceansunfish.org
Delta smelt Hypomesus transpacificus
Department of Fish and Game, California
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Frilled Shark
National Geographic
Lampreys Schindleria brevipinguis
Tree of Life Web Project
Lungfishes order Ceratodontiformes
By Anne Kemps
Oarfishes family Regalecidae
Wikipedia
Sturegon family Syngnathidae
Black Lake, Michigan Chapter
Thresher Shark Alopias vulpinus
ReefQuest Center for Shark Research
Australian Museum
NOVA, PBS
NOVA, PBS
CNN.com
Fish Anatomy
Link description.
Australian Museum Fish Site
Fish Dissection - Not for the Squeamish
Australian Museum Fish Site
Fish Images
"The DFL mission is to catalog the anatomical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data of fishes from most major saltwater, and many freshwater genera to provide a resource for research and education."
Center for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Birch Aquarium at Scripps, and Marine Vertebrate Collection at Scripps, UC San Diego
"... database of images that scientists use for international collaboration, research and education. Images deposited in Morphbank document a wide variety of research including: specimen-based research in comparative anatomy, morphological phylogenetics, taxonomy and related fields focused on increasing our knowledge about biodiversity. The project receives its main funding from the Biological Databases and Informatics program of the National Science Foundation"
Morphbank
"develops and serves unique 2D and 3D visualizations of the internal and external structure of living and extinct vertebrates, and a growing number of invertebrates"
Digital Morphology Group, in conjunction with The University of Texas High-Resolution X-ray Computed Tomography Facility
Alaska Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA
Fish Videos
Alaska Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries, NOAA
Fish Evolution
Link description.
The Virtual Fossil Museum: Fossils Across Geological Time and Evolution
Link description.
Provider of the site.
Commercial Fishes
Includes "a searchable compendium of more than 1500 species of finfish and shellfish important in the U.S. It includes Approved Market Names, Common Names, Scientific Names, Vernacular (local) Names"
U.S Food and Drug Administration
"The mission of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is working with others to conserve, protect, and enhance fish, wildlife, plants, and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people."
NOAA
Links to state, territorial and tribal offices
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
"The Association of Fish and Wildlife Agenciesthe organization that represents all of North Americas fish and wildlife agenciespromotes sound management and conservation, and speaks with a unified voice on important fish and wildlife issues."
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
"As a steward, NOAA Fisheries Service conserves, protects, and manages living marine resources in a way that ensures their continuation as functioning components of marine ecosystems, affords economic opportunities, and enhances the quality of life for the American public."
NOAA
Includes "a searchable compendium of more than 1500 species of finfish and shellfish important in the U.S. It includes Approved Market Names, Common Names, Scientific Names, Vernacular (local) Names"
U.S Food and Drug Administration
Includes information about the The Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), the European Union's instrument for the management of fisheries and aquaculture.
European Commission
"collects, analyzes and disseminates information on the sector operations (catch, production, value, prices, fleets, farming systems, employment). Develops methodology, assesses and monitors the state of wild resources and elaborates resources management advice. Monitors and advises on the development and management of aquaculture. Provides socio-economic analysis of fisheries and aquaculture and assists in the elaboration of development and management polices and strategies and institutions. Supports and assists a network of regional fishery commissions and promotes aquaculture networks. Monitors and advises on technology development, fish processing, food safety and trade."
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Agencies Around the World
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Spain in Spanish
Status of Species
"assessing the conservation status of species, subspecies, varieties and even selected subpopulations on a global scale in order to highlight taxa threatened with extinction, and therefore promote their conservation."
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
"A program of Monterey Bay Aquarium designed to raise consumer awareness about the importance of buying seafood from sustainable sources. We recommend which seafood to buy or avoid, helping consumers to become advocates for environmentally friendly seafood."
Monterey Bay Aquarium
"To qualify as a hotspot, a region must meet two strict criteria: it must contain at least 1,500 species of vascular plants (> 0.5 percent of the worlds total) as endemics, and it has to have lost at least 70 percent of its original habitat." Information on animals as well as plants. At Scripps, we are located within the California Floristic Province, one of the 34 designated biodiversity hotspots around the world.
Conservation International
Fish Collections
"The Marine Vertebrate Collection supports scientific research by providing specimens for studies on the taxonomy, evolution, and ecology of fishes."
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego
Fishes housed in the MCZ since the founding of the museum in 1860 by well-known scientist Louis Agassiz.
Ichthyology Department, Harvard University
"The MCZ Larval Fish Archive is an ongoing project that curates and houses specimens of larval fishes for research use by the scientific community."
Ichthyology Department, Harvard University
Image Collections
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Fish People (Icthyologists)
Spencer Baird
Smithsonian, National Museum of Natural History
Eugenie Clark
Autobiography of David Starr Jordan
Balon, E. K., 1994. Environmental Biology of Fishes 41: 121-125.
Rosa Smith Eigenmann
Women in Science, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Carl Hubbs
Shor, E. N., Rosenblatt, R. H., and Isaacs, J. D., 1987. In Biographical Memoirs, National Academy of Sciences. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C.
David Starr Jordan
David Starr Jordan was an American icthyologist and educator. He became the first president of Stanford University. One of the research vessesls managed by Scripps for NOAA is named after him.
Smithsonian, National Museum of Natural History
The Days of a Man: Being Memories of a Naturalist, Teacher, and Minor Prophet of Democracy.
Autobiography of David Starr Jordan
Jordan, D. S., 1922. World Book Company, Yonkers-on-Hudson, New York, 2 vols. 710, 906 pp.
Rosemary Lowe-McConnell
Ethelwynn Trewavas