I apologize that this post is a day late due to the server issues we had yesterday.
This week’s resource is FishBase, a free web-based search engine of fishes around the world. FishBase indexes 29000 species and many entries include photos or illustrations.
The search page is detailed and comprehensive, allowing numerous search options, including the ability to search by common name or scientific name; to browse by family, country, or ecosystem; and to limit by environment or biodiversity level (pelagic, freshwater, reef-associated, threatened, introduced, etc.) or uses (commercial, aquarium trade, aquaculture).
Each entry contains the scientific and common names of the fish, the discoverer and year discovered, family, order, class, maximum size, environment, climate, commercial importance, resilience, distribution, morphology, biology and behavior, red list status, whether or not the species is dangerous, and links to numerous other sources of information on the fish, including feeding and spawning information, countries of origin, sightings (for rare fish), pictures, and references.