| Underlying sources |
33,500 Species, 319,000 Common names, 58,100 Pictures, 53,800 References information from the FishBase Consortium and 2,270 Collaborators |
FLOD (Fisheries Linked Open Data), ECOSCOPE (A Knowledge Base About Marine Ecosystems), WORMS (World Register of Marine Species), DBpedia, and FishBase |
ISSCAAP (International Standard Statistical Classification of Aquatic Animals and Plants), AGROVOC (a portmanteau of agriculture and vocabulary) thesaurus, ASFA (Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts) thesaurus, and FIGIS (Fisheries Global Information System) data |
TTO, NCBITaxon, and VTO (with linked information from FishBase and PaleoDB) |
| Fish information provided |
Common Name, Scientific Name (both species and genus, and species id), Information by Family, by country/island, by ecosystem, or by specific topic |
Species, Scientific Names, Common Names, Predators, Authorships, Ecosystems, Countries, Water Areas, Vessels, Gears, EEZ, Bibliography, Statistical Indicators |
Imported data sources in the owl file cover the topic of water areas, species taxonomic classification, ISSCAAP commercial classification, Aquatic resources, Land areas, Fisheries commodities, Vessel types and size, Gear types, AGROVOC data and ASFA data. |
Species, Taxon Information, Fish Name, classes related to fish studies and fisheries |
| Difference in fish searching concept |
When searching for a fish species in FishBase, details such as names (common, scientific, other language), taxon classifications, environment, climate, range, distribution, size, weight, age, short description, biology, life cycle, mating behavior, main references, IUCN red list status, threat to human, and human uses will be provided (if available). Furthermore, other information such as the species countries, FAO areas, occurrences, ecology, genetics, internet sources, special reports, tools, and xml data sources are available as additional information sources. |
Searching a fish species through the MarineTLO owl file is not possible. However its competency query v4 suggested that it covers a wide range of search topics such as species and its scientific name, its WORMS classification, prey and predator information, references, images, general terms, identifiers, competitors, biotic type of predator, assignment data, its biological environment, common name with complementary information, and water areas with their FAO codes. |
Searching a fish species through the NFO owl file is also not possible. However it’s imported data sources suggested the you can get information on fish species’ ISSCAAP classification, ASFIS list (covers names and extensive details of species taxonomic rank), Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) bibliographic database ( links to FAO Fish Finder Fact Sheets which cover synonyms, FAO names, scientific names with original description, diagnostic features, Geographical distribution, habitat and biology, size, interest to fisheries, local names, source of information and Bibliography) |
When FO search for a fish, it provide its taxon information, scientific name, common name, synonym, and links to TTO, FishBase and PaleoDB (if available). When unknown species is inferred in the FO, it can find whether a specimen or a sample is a fish or not fish, providing its taxon rank, full name, its characteristic, grouping, and its extinction status. Future concepts will allows it to provide data on fish morphology, genetic content and other fish species related information such as country maturity and other related information (like FishBase). FO infers the type of fish based on parameters provided |
