CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere - Information and Data Centre

Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota CAAB database content as at 15-Apr-2019 17:57

This is new version of the existing CAAB application which is also deployed on the RV Investigator - Any issues, improvements etc. please contact dave.watts@csiro.au.

Features include - distribution map from CSIRO catch records, download your search list of taxa as csv, JSON output of any CAAB taxon record.

General search form - search is case in-sensitive

Search for:		Highlite matches Extract as csv Sort by
Restrict to:	Scientific names (synonymns and authority) example: arripis* or arripis trutta or ar.tr* Common names (standard/marketing) Current names only Species only

or Taxon code (or synonyms)	example: 37 or 37 441 or 37 441004
Include any category or by default all. [] shows category code

Taxonomic tree - drilldown from kingdom to family and then list all taxa within that family.

CATAMI classification tree - see http://catami.org/ for details

Example taxa reports

Clathria (Clathria) macroisochela taxa report with images from the CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection
Leafscale Gulper Shark taxa report (image/map)
Mermaid Lanternfish report with bioreg and catch
Macroalgae: Large canopy-forming: Brown report with multiple images (CATAMI)

CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota