CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere - Information and Data Centre

Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota CAAB database content as at 15-Jan-2020 14:12

This is new version of the original 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:		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 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

CAAB dump - a excel file of all records.

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)

CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota