FishMap is a free online mapping tool that allows anyone interested in fish to discover which fish species occur at any location or depth throughout the marine waters of Australia's continental shelf and slope.
FishMap also lets people create regional illustrated species lists for almost all of Australia's marine fishes, detailed with photographs and illustrations, distribution maps and current scientific and common names.
FishMap was developed by CSIRO's Wealth from Oceans Flagship and the Atlas of Living Australia.
"Australia's marine biodiversity is among the richest in world, but until FishMap we lacked an Australia-wide capability to rapidly produce regional, illustrated species lists," says ichthyologist Mr Daniel Gledhill of CSIRO's Wealth from Oceans Flagship.
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2013-02-fish-great.html#jCp