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CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota CAAB database content as at 26-Jul-2021 14:57
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
Collection Images
- CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection (MIIC) - browse images from 22 voyages
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)