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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB)

Australian Ocean Data Network
CSIRO O&A, Information & Data Centre (Point of contact) Data Officer (DW), Hobart (Processor of)
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Taxon codes are useful for data storage where it is desirable to maintain the collected data (e.g. catch or survey data) independently from the associated name information (which is subject to revision or correction with changes in taxonomic knowledge). CAAB codes are also meaningful and convey information about the organism's classification down to the level of family, and so can be used for rapid sorting and filtering if desired. CAAB currently contains over 4,500 codes for fishes, 250+ codes for other marine vertebrates (reptiles, seabirds, and marine mammals), over 5,000 codes for marine invertebrates (including sponges, stony corals, echinoderms, commercially important crustaceans and molluscs, tunicates, and other taxa), and codes for Australian seagrasses and mangroves and a representative selection of Australian seaweeds and microalgae. While concentrating on the fauna and flora of the Australian Fishing Zone (AFZ) surrounding mainland Australia, some taxa from the broader Australasian region are also included, as well as species imported from other countries for sale domestically. CAAB also incorporates on-line links to further sources of taxonomic information such as the Australian Faunal Directory, the international directories FishBase, AlgaeBase, the US ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System) database and the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Links to WoRMS are particularly useful as any public occurrence data published to the Ocean Biodiversity Information System requires a WoRMS identifier The Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) maintains the Australian Fish Names Standard (AS 5300) and Australian Standard for Aquatic Plant Names (AS 5301) vernacular name standards. Selected images are available per taxa. In particular the application Fishmap (https://www.marine.csiro.au/data/caab/fishmap.cfm) contains search tools for images and maps of the modelled species distribution of fish species. It is an updated version of the original Fishmap hosted by Atlas of Living Australia as it is current and contains regions in the Antarctic and Australia's offshore islands of Macquarie, Lord Howe, Heard and McDonald, Norfolk, Christmas and Cocos Keeling.Maintenance and Update Frequency: continualStatement: Information in CAAB has been sourced from available literature and (for fishes) by in-house taxonomic research and reference to some 25+ external taxonomic specialists (for a then-current list, see Yearsley et al. 1997, table 5). Most data in CAAB has been cross-checked for accuracy against more than one available source. Source information is indicated for many of the entries (particularly invertebrates), and makes use of the ABRS Australian Faunal Directory or WoRMS wherever possible. 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CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - is an 8-digit coding system for fishes and other aquatic organisms in the Australian region maintained originally by CSIRO Division of Marine Research and now CSIRO NCMI. CAAB can be used to obtain a taxon code for any species or species group on the CAAB list for use in data storage, or to obtain the current scientific name or other information for any CAAB taxon code. For groups where coverage of the Australian fauna is complete, it can also be used to generate lists of currently recognised Australian marine taxa in any genus, family or selected higher-level category. Taxon codes are useful for data storage where it is desirable to maintain the collected data (e.g. catch or survey data) independently from the associated name information (which is subject to revision or correction with changes in taxonomic knowledge). CAAB codes are also "meaningful" and convey information about the organism's classification down to the level of family, and so can be used for rapid sorting and filtering if desired. CAAB currently contains over 4,500 codes for fishes, 250+ codes for other marine vertebrates (reptiles, seabirds, and marine mammals), over 5,000 codes for marine invertebrates (including sponges, stony corals, echinoderms, commercially important crustaceans and molluscs, tunicates, and other taxa), and codes for Australian seagrasses and mangroves and a representative selection of Australian seaweeds and microalgae. While concentrating on the fauna and flora of the Australian Fishing Zone (AFZ) surrounding mainland Australia, some taxa from the broader Australasian region are also included, as well as species imported from other countries for sale domestically. CAAB also incorporates on-line links to further sources of taxonomic information such as the Australian Faunal Directory, the international directories FishBase, AlgaeBase, the US ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System) database and the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Links to WoRMS are particularly useful as any public occurrence data published to the Ocean Biodiversity Information System requires a WoRMS identifier

The Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) maintains the Australian Fish Names Standard (AS 5300) and
Australian Standard for Aquatic Plant Names (AS 5301) vernacular name standards.

Selected images are available per taxa. In particular the application Fishmap (https://www.marine.csiro.au/data/caab/fishmap.cfm) contains search tools for images and maps of the modelled species distribution of fish species. It is an updated version of the original Fishmap hosted by Atlas of Living Australia as it is current and contains regions in the Antarctic and Australia's offshore islands of Macquarie, Lord Howe, Heard and McDonald, Norfolk, Christmas and Cocos Keeling.

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Maintenance and Update Frequency: continual
Statement: Information in CAAB has been sourced from available literature and (for fishes) by in-house taxonomic research and reference to some 25+ external taxonomic specialists (for a then-current list, see Yearsley et al. 1997, table 5). Most data in CAAB has been cross-checked for accuracy against more than one available source. Source information is indicated for many of the entries (particularly invertebrates), and makes use of the ABRS "Australian Faunal Directory" or WoRMS wherever possible. CAAB is continuously updated as new groups are added, errors are detected, or changes of name by relevant taxonomists become known to the editors.

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FRDC - funding (project 90/105)
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Gordon Yearsley
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Peter Last
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Tony Rees
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Karen Gowlett-Holmes
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Graeme Morris
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Miroslaw Ryba

Data time period: 1980

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Subjects
Angiosperms (Flowering Plants) | ANGIOSPERMS (FLOWERING PLANTS) | Animals/Invertebrates | ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES | ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES | Animals/Vertebrates | Anthozoans/Hexacorals | ARTHROPODS | Bacteria/Archaea | BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION | BIOSPHERE | Birds | CNIDARIANS | Crustaceans | Dicots | Divisional Data Centre 1997- | EARTH SCIENCE | Echinoderms | ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS | Exotic Species | Fish | Indigenous/Native Species | Macroalgae (Seaweeds) | Mammals | Mollusks | MONOCOTS | Marine Features (Australia) | Australian EEZ | Marine Planning Regions (Australia) | Australian Antarctic | Marine Planning Regions (Australia) | Macquarie | Named Locations (Antarctica) | Offshore Islands (Australia) | Phytoplankton | PLANKTON | Plants | PLANTS | PROTISTS | Reptiles | Regional Seas | Seagrass | SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS | Sponges | oceans |

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uri : https://www.marine.csiro.au/data/caab/

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  • global : ed76dd5a-0dad-4796-b2c1-f4fba107fea4
  • Local : Marlin Record Number: 5747
  • Local : Anzlic Identifier: ANZCW0306005747
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