Editing FishBase (section)

{{Short description|Biological database about fish}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2022}}
{{Infobox biodatabase
| title = FishBase
| logo = [[File:FishBase logo.gif]]
| description = A large and extensively accessed biological database about fish
| scope = Comprehensive species data, including taxonomy, biometrics, behaviour, distribution, habitats and photos
| organism = Adult fish species ([[Fish#"True fish" or "finfish"|finfish]])
| center = [[GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel]], FishBase Consortium coordinator
| laboratory = 
| author = [[Daniel Pauly]], [[Rainer Froese]]
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| format = 
| url = {{URL|http://www.fishbase.us|fishbase.us}}
| download = 
| webservice = 
| sql = 
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| webapp = 
| standalone = Historic versions available on CD
| license = [[Creative Commons license|CC-BY-NC]] for data; various levels of licensing for media files (pictures, sounds, ...) to be checked case by case
| versioning = Every even month of the year
| frequency = Continuously updated
| curation = FishBase Consortium
| bookmark = Yes
| version = Latest version: 02/2024
}}

'''FishBase''' is a [[Global Species Database|global species database]] of [[fish]] species (specifically [[Fish#"True fish" or "finfish"|finfish]]).<ref>Froese R and Pauly D (eds) (2000) [http://fishbase.org/manual/english/contents.htm ''FishBase 2000: concepts, design and data sources'']. ICLARM. Philippines.</ref> It is the largest and most extensively accessed [[Database|online database]] on adult finfish on the web.<ref name="Pew">[http://www.pewenvironment.org/research-programs/marine-fellow/id/8589941905 Marine Fellow: Rainer Froese] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131221164050/http://www.pewenvironment.org/research-programs/marine-fellow/id/8589941905 |date=21 December 2013 }} ''Pew Environment Group''.</ref> Over time it has "evolved into a dynamic and versatile ecological tool" that is widely cited in scholarly publications.<ref>Stergiou KI and Tsikliras AC (2006) [http://ichthyology.bio.auth.gr/files/tsikliras/d/d3.pdf Scientific impact of FishBase: A citation analysis] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111008223552/http://ichthyology.bio.auth.gr/files/tsikliras/d/d3.pdf |date=8 October 2011 }} In: Palomares MLD, Stergiou KI and Pauly D (eds.), ''Fishes in Databases and Ecosystems''. ''[[UBC Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries|UBC Fisheries Centre]]'', Research reports '''14'''(4): 2–6.</ref><ref>[http://www.fishbase.us/References/FBRefList.php References Citing FishBase] FishBase. Last modified 5 July 2010. Retrieved 20 July 2011.</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Humphries |first1=Austin |last2=Dimarchopoulou |first2=Donna |last3=Stergiou |first3=Konstantinos |last4=Tsikliras |first4=Athanassios |last5=Palomares |first5=Deng |last6=Bailly |first6=Nicolas |last7=Nauen |first7=Cornelia |last8=Luna |first8=Susan |last9=Banasihan |first9=Lyra |last10=Froese |first10=Rainer |last11=Pauly |first11=Daniel |date=2023 |title=Measuring the scientific impact of FishBase after three decades |url=https://donnadim.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Humphries_etal_2023_FB_citation_analysis.pdf |journal=Cybium |volume=47 |issue=3 |pages=213–224 |doi=10.26028/cybium/2023-002}}</ref>

FishBase provides comprehensive species data, including information on [[taxonomy (biology)|taxonomy]], geographical distribution, [[biometrics]] and [[Morphology (biology)|morphology]], behaviour and habitats, ecology and [[population dynamics]] as well as reproductive, metabolic and genetic data. There is access to tools such as [[Ecological pyramid|trophic pyramid]]s, [[identification key]]s, [[Biogeography|biogeographical]] modelling and fishery statistics and there are direct species level links to information in other databases such as [[LarvalBase]], [[GenBank]], the [[IUCN Red List]] and the [[Catalog of Fishes]].<ref>Gert B and Snoeks J (2004) [http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/76736.pdf#page=48 "FishBase: encyclopaedia and research tool"] Page 48, VLIZ Special Publication 17, Brugge, Belgium.</ref>

{{As of|2024|02}}, FishBase included descriptions of 35,600 [[species]] and subspecies, with 329,500 [[common name]]s, 64,000 pictures, and references to 61,700 works in the [[scientific literature]]. The site has about 700,000 visits per month.<ref>According to the [http://www.fishbase.us FishBase] web page, accessed November 2023.</ref>