Fishes of Australia

Fishes of Australia Online delivers information on many of Australia’s 4500 fish species. Under development.

Description

Inshore map for selection of Fishes by Region. 1

Fishes of Australia Online compiles information about the biodiversity and evolutionary relationships of Australian fishes, with the aim of providing information, identification tools, images and other resources for every fish species known from Australian waters.2

The vast majority of Australian species have restricted geographical distributions which are determined by their biology, behaviour and historical origins. In most cases, these distributional ranges conform to a number of generalized bioregions around the coastline and to rather regular depth intervals.3

Fish Family Finder is an interactive aid to the identification of the families of fishes known to occur in the marine and freshwater regions of Australia.

Fishes of Australia online is an initiative of the Australian Ichthyological taxonomy community under the banner of OzFishNet and the Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS), with support provided by DEW (Department of Environment and Water Resources).

Project partners include ABRS, Museum Victoria, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, the Australian Museum, the Queensland Museum, the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, the Western Australian Museum, the South Australian Museum, Dr Gerald Allen (Conservation International), Rudie Kuiter and Ken Graham (NSW Fisheries).4

Function

• Visualisation tools
  • Maps
  • Images
• Analysis tools
  • Simple
• Taxonomy
  • Identification tools, keys
• User interface
  • Personal use
  • Visual presentation

Why use this tool?

Fishes of Australia Online is expected to be used by all people interested in Australian fishes, including students, teachers, nature lovers, amateur scientists, graduate students, lecturers and researchers seeking identification keys, images, phylogenetic tree and other systematic information.5

Who will use this tool?

• Data users
  • Expert
  • Interest groups
  • General public

How will the tool be used?

• Online application
• User input required

Where in the data chain could this tool be used?

• User’s machine

When could this tool be used?

• At the time of a user request

Availability

• Fishes of Australia: http://foa.webboy.net/
• Identify a fish key: http://foa.webboy.net/key/
• Fishes by Region: http://foa.webboy.net/browse/
• Example species page: Southern Whiptail Coelorinchus australis

  http://foa.webboy.net/fishes/display.cfm?genus=Coelorinchus&species=australis

• Contact: http://foa.webboy.net/contact/
• Australian Standard Fish Names: http://www.fishnames.com.au/

Comments

Scientific names and Australian Standard Fish Names are used.