BACKGROUND
The long-term goal of this project is to create and maintain a FishBase-like information system for all aquatic living organisms (marine and freshwater), ca. 300,000 spp. Of these, marine organism (about 200,000 spp) are the target of the current project phase. It will not provide yet another authority list of species, but rather provide, for each species included, the biological information necessary to conduct biodiversity and ecosystem studies, taking advantage of lists of species already available on paper and electronically, and using the scientific names they provide as ‘hook’ to organize biodiversity information.
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