Global online database of information about marine life
SeaLifeBase
Content
Description
A global online database of information about aquatic species
Data types captured
Scientific and common names, distribution and ecology
Organisms
All aquatic species, except finfish
Contact
Research center
Sea Around Us Project
Authors
Daniel Pauly Maria Lourdes D. Palomares
Access
Website
www.sealifebase.org
Miscellaneous
License
CC-BY-NC
Data release frequency
Continuously updated
Bookmarkable entities
Yes
SeaLifeBase is a global online database of information about marine life. It aims to provide key information on the taxonomy, distribution and ecology of all marine species in the world apart from finfish.[1] SeaLifeBase is in partnership with the WorldFish Center in Malaysia and the UBC Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries at the University of British Columbia.[1] Daniel Pauly is the principal investigator and it is coordinated by Maria Lourdes D. Palomares. As of March 2023[update], it included descriptions of 85,000 species, 59,400 common names, 15,500 pictures, and references to 39,300 works in the scientific literature.[2] SeaLifeBase complements FishBase, which provides parallel information for finfish.
^ abSeaLifeBase (SLB FishBase Information and Research Group (FIN). Retrieved 22 July 2011.
^According to the SeaLifeBase web page, Retrieved 16 March 2023.
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archived from the original (PDF) on 2 November 2012 "Dugong dugon, dugong". sealifebase.org. "GOBI Newsletter Summer 2020" (PDF). GOBI. 2020. pp. 6–8. Retrieved...
Palomares ML, Pauly D, eds. (2018). "Austromegabalanus psittacus" in SeaLifeBase. October 2018 version. Carolina J. Zagal; Consuelo Hermosilla C. (2007)...
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fleckeri, commonly known as the Australian box jelly, and nicknamed the sea wasp, is a species of extremely venomous box jellyfish found in coastal waters...
American shell middens. Its actual size is speculative, based largely on tooth remains. The sea mink was first described in 1903, after its extinction;...
Cooperation Sea and less near Ross Sea because of its predator and competitor, the Antarctic toothfish. The region between the Weddell Sea and the western...
González, Á.F., Á. Guerra & F. Rocha 2003. New data on the life history and ecology of the deep-sea hooked squid Taningia danae. Sarsia 88(4): 297–301. Quetglas...
were immediately swept by the California Current thousands of miles out to sea. A solution was proposed whereby the larvae use an opposing undercurrent...
settles down, it gives rise to a colony of polyps that are attached to the sea floor. All the polyps and jellyfish arising from a single planula are genetically...
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