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Catalog of Fishes - version of 29 March 2018 (Continuously updated since the early 1980s, around the turn of the month.)

Richard van der Laan is now a co-author of the Catalog of Fishes. This becomes Eschmeyer, W. N., R. Fricke, and R. van der Laan.

Other projects include Fricke (early references, new references, and corrections).

In this edition, we provide 94 new species in 2018. In 2017 there were 468 new species described.

Bill Eschmeyer, Florida Museum of Natural History, 1659 Museum Road, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA and California Academy of Sciences.

We are making additions to:

Van der Laan, R., W. N. Eschmeyer & R. Fricke (2014) (11 Nov.), Family-group names of Recent fishes. Zootaxa Monograph 3882 (1), 1-230. DOI 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1

Download the addenda to the family-group list as a PDF.

See Family Group Names for future updates by R. van der Laan.

By default, search results will not include item 3 names -- unavailable names that detract from the main list of available names. These are mostly names mentioned in synonymy, names in lists, etc. They are still in the database, so if you want to see them, check the box labeled Include unavailable names before searching.

Citing the Catalog of Fishes

Eschmeyer, W. N. and R. Fricke, and R. van der Laan (eds).CATALOG OF FISHES: GENERA, SPECIES, REFERENCES. (http://http://www.zjjv.com///research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp). Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2018. [This version was edited by Bill Eschmeyer.]

Fricke, R. (ed).REFERENCES. (http://http://www.zjjv.com///research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp). Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2018. [Ron Fricke devoted much time to improving references and journals, many of which had not been examined in 15 to 25 years. Please remember that the title of a paper often differs in three places: the title on the paper itself, the contents listed by the journal, and in the PDF provided by the journal. Ron tends to follow the title on the pdf for recent papers and the title on the original for earlier publications. Many of our dates of publication are documented for priority purposes. Some current journals have a target date, but actual publication is often delayed. For nomenclatural date problems, we will help if we can.]

van der Laan, R., W. N. Eschmeyer and R. Fricke.FAMILY-GROUP NAMES. (http://http://www.zjjv.com///scientists/catalog-of-fishes-family-group-names/). Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2018.

Eschmeyer, W. N. and R. Fricke, and R. van der Laan (eds).CATALOG OF FISHES: CLASSIFICATION. (http://http://www.zjjv.com///scientists/catalog-of-fishes-classification/). Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2018.

Fricke, R. & Eschmeyer, W. N.JOURNALS. (http://http://www.zjjv.com///research/ichthyology/catalog/journals.asp). Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2018. [Includes all journals appearing in the Catalog, including publication information and ISSN numbers.]

Fricke, R. & Eschmeyer, W. N.GUIDE TO FISH COLLECTIONS. (http://http://www.zjjv.com///research/ichthyology/catalog/collections.asp). Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2018. [Arranged by museum abbreviation and by country, includes type catalogs and historical publications and www sites where available.]

Eschmeyer, W. N. & Fong, J. D.SPECIES BY FAMILY/SUBFAMILY. (http://http://www.zjjv.com///research/ichthyology/catalog/SpeciesByFamily.asp). Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2018. [Recalculated with each new version; based on current literature, this provides all available species names, valid species, and species described in the last 10 years by family/subfamily.]

Please remember that if you got to the Catalog of Fishes from Fishbase, you are NOT in Fishbase. Fishbase is a more comprehensive database for a different audience, but they use Catalog of Fishes information in their authority file.

Some other useful sites for fishes are (1) Fishbase [Fishbase team, Manila]; (2) http://www.zjjv.com//sftep -- A comprehensive database on Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific (and of the eastern Atlantic) [Ross Robertson]; (3) shark-references.com -- A database on elasmobranchs, with over 13,000 references, information on taxa, type specimens, etc. [J