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Animal Information - Aquatic Resources

Use the web to find conservation and other information. The internet is a great place to start—but you have to specify what you are looking for. The best and most accurate information will be found on websites of zoos, natural history museums, universities, well-known conservation organizations, and government agencies.

If you don’t know the scientific name of the animal you are researching, try an online encyclopedia such as the University of Michigan's Animal Diversity Web. For example, if you are interested in bears, you could narrow your search to black bears and type in their scientific name Ursus americanus to avoid getting not-so-helpful sites that might include teddy bears, the Chicago Bears, and so on.

General Aquatic Resources

American Zoo and Aquarium Association http://www.aza.org/
World Database of Marine Species http://www.seadb.univpm.it/index.php
American Fisheries Society http://www.fisheries.org
FishBase- Fish information website http://www.fishbase.org/home.htm
US Fish and Wildlife Service http://www.fws.gov/
TX Parks and Wildlife http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/
ICUN http://www.iucn.org/
CITES http://www.cites.org/index.html

Marine Fish

The Seahorse Trust http://www.theseahorsetrust.co.uk/
Project Seahorse http://seahorse.fisheries.ubc.ca/
National Marine Fisheries http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/

Freshwater Fish

N.A. Native Fishes Assoc http://www.nanfa.org/
Catfish ID website http://www.planetcatfish.com
Desert Fishes Council http://www.desertfishes.org/index.html
Madagascar Endangered Fishes http://www.madagascarfish.org/

Aquatic Invertebrates

Sea anemones and their allies http://hercules.kgs.ku.edu/hexacoral/anemone2/index.cfm
Jellyfish http://thescyphozoan.ucmerced.edu/
The Sea Slug forum http://www.seaslugforum.net/
Serpent Seastar http://home.att.net/~ophiuroid/html/main.html
Shrimp and Crabs http://www.planetinverts.com/
Shrimp and Crabs http://www.shrimpcrabsandcrayfish.co.uk/Shrimp.htm?Caridina.htm~mainFrame
Freshwater Jellyfish http://www.jellyfish.iup.edu/
Central Pacific database of Crustaceans http://decapoda.ecole-navale.fr/index.php
Sea Shells http://www.gastropods.com/index.html
Bioluminescence http://www.lifesci.ucsb.edu/~biolum/

Marine Snakes

Sea Snakes http://homes.jcu.edu.au/~sci-bhl/index.htm
Sea Snakes http://www.fieldmuseum.org/aquaticsnakes/true_sea.html
Australian Venom Research Unit http://www.avru.org/index.html

Corals and Coral Reefs

Soft Corals http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/cnidaria/octocorallia.html
Coralline Algae http://www.botany.uwc.ac.za/clines/default.htm
Australia Institute of Marine Science http://www.aims.gov.au/index.html
NOAA Coral Health website http://www.coral.noaa.gov/lists/
CRC Reef http://www.reef.crc.org.au/about/index.html
Flower Gardens Banks http://flowergarden.noaa.gov/welcome.html
Marine Biota of Tropical America http://porites.geology.uiowa.edu/index.htm
SECORE http://www.secore.org/

Sea Turtles

Sea Turtle http://www.seaturtle.org/
Wider Caribbean Seat Turtle Conservation http://www.widecast.org/#top

Sharks

Sharks and Sawfish http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/
Shark Specialist Group http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/organizations/ssg/ssg.htm

Cephalopods

Cephalopoda http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Cephalopoda&contgroup=Mollusca
Cephbase http://www.cephbase.utmb.edu/
Cephalopod Page http://www.thecephalopodpage.org/
The Octopus Magazine online http://www.tonmo.com/

Invasive/Prohibited Species

Texas Prohibited Species http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/huntwild/wild/species/exotic/
Non-native Species Watch list http://nis.gsmfc.org/nis_links_subject.php
National Invasive Species http://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/
Invasive species website http://nis.gsmfc.org
Global Invasive Species http://www.issg.org/database/welcome/

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