FishBase

FishBase (31 000 Species, 270 600 Common names, 46 900 Pictures, 42 400 References, 1620 Collaborators, 33 million Hits/month). FishBase is an information system with key data on the biology of all fishes. Similar to an encyclopedia, FishBase contains different things for different people. For example, fisheries managers will dive into the largest existing compilation of population dynamics data; teachers and students will find numerous graphs illustrating basic concepts of fish biology; taxonomists will enjoy access to the November 2000 update of Eschmeyers (1998) Catalog of Fishes databases; conservationists will use the lists of threatened fishes for any given country (Hilton-Taylor 2000); policymakers may be interested in a chronological, annotated list of introductions to their country; research scientists, as well as funding agencies, will find it useful to gain a quick overview of what is known about a certain species; zoologists and physiologists will have the largest existing compilations of fish morphology, metabolism, gill area, brain size, eye pigment, or swimming speed at their fingertips; ecologists will likewise use data on diet composition, trophic levels, food consumption and predators as inputs for their models; geneticists will find the largest compilation of allele frequencies; the fishing industry will find proximate analyses, as well as processing recommendations for many marine species; anglers will enjoy a listing of all game fishes occurring in a particular country (IGFA 1994); and scholars interested in local knowledge will find more than 100,000 common names of fishes together with the language/culture in which they are used and comments on their etymology.

FishBase 收录31000种鱼类、270600个通用俗名、46900张图片、42400篇参考文献、1620名协作人员，月访问量达3300万次。FishBase是一套涵盖全球所有鱼类核心生物学数据的专业信息系统。如同百科全书一般，FishBase可针对不同受众提供差异化的内容：渔业管理者可查阅目前全球规模最大的鱼类种群动态数据汇编；教师与学生可获取大量阐释鱼类生物学基础概念的可视化图表；分类学家可使用2000年11月更新的《埃施迈耶尔1998年鱼类目录》（Eschmeyers (1998) Catalog of Fishes）数据库；保护生物学家可查询任意国家的濒危鱼类名录（Hilton-Taylor 2000）；政策制定者可查阅本国鱼类引种的按时间排序且带注释的完整名录；科研人员与资助机构可快速掌握某一鱼类物种的现有研究概况；动物学家与生理学家可便捷获取全球规模最大的鱼类形态学、代谢、鳃面积、脑容量、眼部色素及游泳速度等相关数据汇编；生态学家可将鱼类食性组成、营养级、食物消耗量及天敌等数据作为生态模型的输入参数；遗传学家可获取全球规模最大的等位基因频率汇编数据集；渔业从业者可查阅多种海洋鱼类的近似营养成分分析结果及加工处理建议；垂钓爱好者可查询特定国家境内所有游钓鱼类名录（IGFA 1994）；而关注本土鱼类文化知识的学者则可查阅超过10万个鱼类通用俗名，附带其使用的语言/文化背景及词源注释。