Any good free API's for Fish and Coral ID out there

[Matt1508]

Hi All

Im currently doing a Uni project with my Daughter whereby she needs to build a fully functioning app in relation to her hobbies, of course its Reef Keeping ..

Ive done some searching but cant find much in the way of an API ( a database you can hook into) with Fish ID, pictures, description and Corals too

Any help MASSIVLEY appreciated

Matt

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

Hi All

Im currently doing a Uni project with my Daughter whereby she needs to build a fully functioning app in relation to her hobbies, of course its Reef Keeping ..

Ive done some searching but cant find much in the way of an API ( a database you can hook into) with Fish ID, pictures, description and Corals too

Any help MASSIVLEY appreciated

Matt

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

www.fishbase.se

Shorefishes - Homepage

Fishes of the Greater Caribbean

biogeodb.stri.si.edu

TreatmentBank - Plazi

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

plazi.org

Corals of the World

www.coralsoftheworld.org

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

v3.boldsystems.org