Online critter ID

On 10/2/2020 at 11:22 AM, bikerschim said:

Rocha,

the site you have listed as:

Fishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific http://www.neotropicalfishes.org/sftep/

has been hijacked by a bank or loan company -  I could find no way to access this site if it even exists

and this site: Australian Museum  

is a clearing site for al kinds of games and other non UW ID sites

Is it just my computer or does anyone else find these two to be something else?

I checked a few others and they did reflect what is indicated.

Gary

The links are 11 years old , the Australian Museum has a new web address - the page you found is trying to sell the web address.  Here's the new one:  https://australian.museum/learn/species-identification/ask-an-expert/identify-a-fish/

The Neo Tropical fish site seems to have disappeared.  There is a free app available "shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific put out the smithsonian,  and also a website:  https://biogeodb.stri.si.edu/sftep/en/pages

Rocha,

I figured it might be something like that. I have never been to the site previously, looks like a good site to help ID critters though. Thanks!

Gary

I've generally used a mixture of fishbase and locally focused sites--to add a couple of the latter:

http://www.guamreeflife.com/species-id-v2/ Has been pretty good, though not perfect and should have a fair bit of overlap with the rest of Micronesia.

https://divebums.com/FishID/ Can feel a bit dated but is a goodresource for San Diego/Southern California diving.