Looking for a list of Marine fish

[ZachDemitro]

Does anyone know a good website or place that has a really nice selection of fish or just information about fish. I seem to constantly find new fish and never know the names. LiveAquaria has a okay selection but they are still missing some fish. Just looking for info with pictures and names. Thank you for your time.

 

[CasperOe]

These are my preffered sources of information:

Saltwater Aquarium Blog: Saltwater Tanks, Fish, & Coral Information

Saltwater Aquarium Blog: Want to build a better saltwater aquarium, get the right equipment & enjoy your fish, corals and invertebrates more?

www.saltwateraquariumblog.com

Saltwater Fish: Marine Aquarium Fish for Saltwater Aquariums

Shop LiveAquaria® Marine Fish category for the finest selection of saltwater tropical aquarium fish. Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned hobbyist, find quality aquatic life when you shop LiveAquaria®.

www.liveaquaria.com

 

[Slocke]

If you want a complete list then: https://fishbase.mnhn.fr/identification/specieslist.php?famcode=362&areacode=&spines=&fins=
Though you'll need a good understanding of taxonomy.

 

[CasperOe]

If you want a complete list then: https://fishbase.mnhn.fr/identification/specieslist.php?famcode=362&areacode=&spines=&fins=
Though you'll need a good understanding of taxonomy.

This is cool man, thanks!

 

[vetteguy53081]

Does anyone know a good website or place that has a really nice selection of fish or just information about fish. I seem to constantly find new fish and never know the names. LiveAquaria has a okay selection but they are still missing some fish. Just looking for info with pictures and names. Thank you for your time.

Often a good REFERENCE source is Liveaquaria.com

fish4less
Reefbeuties.com

 

[mijan]

This has always been my choice.

 

[ZachDemitro]

This has always been my choice.

I gotta get me one of those

 

[vetteguy53081]

This has always been my choice.

Very good book. Problem though is last version (3rd edition) was January 1, 2000 and hundreds of more species have come into the market while many are no longer to be found but still a good reference

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

The links in my quote below have a ton of good info like this, but none of them have all of the info.

For fish pics, info, and names when basically all you know is what the fish looks like, Reeflex, Fish Base (the link above the quote specifically), and Salt Corner would (IMO) probably be the easiest ones to use when attempting to find a fish (especially if you're not well versed in the taxonomy), but - as with all of the databases below - the more you know about what the fish is taxonomically/by common name, the easier it would be to find the fish. (Just as a note here, Salt Corner is primarily hobby oriented, Reeflex and Solar Slug both have some hobby related aspects, the rest are pretty much entirely professional oriented.)

The links:

Fish Identification: Find class

I'm not sure about any API's (I'm not sure if anyone has programmed an API for reef keeping yet), but here are some good databases with info (some are better and/or easier to use than others):

WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species

www.marinespecies.org

Welcome to Saltcorner! A saltwater aquarium reference site for hobbyists.

Marine Aquarium Library, Articles, Questions and Answers, Photo Galleries, and Product / Book Reviews.

www.saltcorner.com

Search FishBase

Shorefishes of the Greater Caribbean online information system - Homepage

Shorefishes of the Greater Caribbean online information system

biogeodb.stri.si.edu

- Plazi

TreatmentBank is a service to liberate data from scholarly publications and disseminate it as FAIR data

plazi.org

Corals of the World

The Sponge Guide

spongeguide.uncw.edu

World Porifera Database

www.marinespecies.org

Sponge Barcoding Project - covering the complete taxonomic range of Porifera

The Sponge Barcoding Project is the first worldwide barcoding project on any non-bilaterian taxon and covers the complete taxonomic range of Porifera.

www.spongebarcoding.org

Sea anemones: Actiniaria.com

actiniaria.com

These last few are either in a different language (not in English) or have both English and another language on the site:

Mainpage Reeflex

reeflex.net

DORIS - Données d'Observations pour la Reconnaissance et l'Identification de la faune et la flore Subaquatique

Le site DORIS de la FFESSM vise à recenser, illustrer et décrire le maximum d'espèces, communes ou rares, visibles en plongée dans nos eaux de métropole et d'outre-mer.

doris.ffessm.fr

| Nederlands Soortenregister

www.nederlandsesoorten.nl

Starfish: Photos of fishes, invertebrates (molluscs, crustaceans, echinoderms, worms, corals, sponges, jellyfish and more), reptiles, rays and sharks. Start your dive into the coral reef!

Zubi's wetpage: coralreef, scuba diving, marine animals, photos, travelogs, frogfish / starfish: Korallenriff, Unterwasserfotos, Reiseberichte (Tauchen Asien und Rotes Meer), Anglerfisch

www.starfish.ch

Edit: Remembered a few more:

wildsingapore homepage

You CAN make a difference for Singapore's wild places! Simply explore, express and ACT! Find out more in this one-stop location on Singapore's wildlife and wild places.

www.wildsingapore.com

The Biodiversity of Singapore

A Digital Reference Collection for Singapore

singapore.biodiversity.online

Indian River Lagoon Species Inventory Home

irlspecies.org

BOLD Systems v3

Just to add for anyone interested, a page with a bunch of sea slug related links, including the Sea Slug Forum, which is good enough that I've also listed it below:

Slug-Related Web Sites (Elysia and others) – Solar Sea Slug Blog

solarslug.info

The Sea Slug Forum - Home Page

www.seaslugforum.net

 

[mijan]

Very good book. Problem though is last version (3rd edition) was January 1, 2000 and hundreds of more species have come into the market while many are no longer to be found but still a good reference

I've been doing this for a long time

 

[vetteguy53081]

I've been doing this for a long time

Just indicating, I wish there was a later version with added specimens. Been doing this 40 years and seen many more than in the book. As stated- its a great reference