CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure

CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota CAAB database content as at 17-Jan-2021 14:56

This is new version of the original CAAB application which is also deployed on the RV Investigator - Any issues, improvements etc. please contact IDC using the Contact form

Features include - distribution map from CSIRO catch records, download your search list of taxa as csv, JSON output of any CAAB taxon record, direct links to WoRMS, ALA and other sites.

General search form - search is case in-sensitive

Search for:		Highlight matches Extract as CSV (tab delimited) Sort by
Restrict search to:	Scientific names (synonyms and authority) example: arripis* or arripis trutta or ar.tr* Common names (standard/marketing) Current accepted names only Species only include CSIRO project-specific ("informal") taxa

or Taxon code (or synonyms)	example: 37 or 37 441 or 37 441004
Restrict to a taxonomic group (default is all).
Restrict to a CAAB category (default is all). Category code shown in []

View CAAB via Taxonomic tree

Taxonomic tree - drilldown from kingdom to family and then list all taxa within that family.
CATAMI classification tree - see http://catami.org/ for details

Reports and extracts

List of new or updated CAAB records in the last 30 days
Return up to 1000 CAAB records as JSON using this search tool or view details to construct your own query.
CAAB dump - an excel file of all 65,000 records.
Get expert fish distribution as a shapefile - for additional formats, query the CSIRO O&A Geoserver searching for the CAAB layer

Example taxa reports

Clathria (Clathria) macroisochela taxa report with images from the CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection (MIIC)
Leafscale Gulper Shark taxa report (image/map)
Lampanyctus lepidolychnus (Mermaid Lanternfish) report with expert distribution map from the Australian National Fish Expert Distributions and CSIRO catch records.
Macroalgae: Large canopy-forming: Brown report with multiple images (CATAMI)