Sea Fish Atlas
The Sea Fish Atlas project is a SeaKeys initiative and aims to map where different fish are found in South Africa with the help of the diving and fishing communities and in fact, anyone interested in the marine environment. The Sea Fish Atlas will include marine fish from anywhere in South African: the deep sea, shallow reefs, kelp forests and all coastal and estuarine regions. So, if you have any photographs of fish from these regions, please consider participating.
How you can become involved:
Please upload photographs of marine fish along with information on where you photographed it onto iSpot and in the “descriptive tags” section, tag your observation with “Sea Fish Atlas”. Don’t worry if photographs are not “competition standard”, all we need to do is be able to identify the fish in the image, although please feel free to post amazing photos!
Here are some tips on what makes an ideal fish observation which will make identification easier but all images will contribute towards the Atlas.
Once you have submitted 10 observation you will be eligible for the Sea Fish Atlas badge based on our logo which you can request here Badge Please. This gorgeous Sea Fish Atlas Logo is based on the rectangular triggerfish Rhinecanthus rectangulus. You can find an observation of this species on iSpot here.
With your help on this project we hope to produce:
* The first detailed national distribution maps for marine and estuarine fish
* Updated national species lists
* New species records
* Encyclopaedia of Life pages
* DNA barcodes
* New species descriptions and identification guides
If you have any queries, tips or comments, please post them below!
Latest Observations - Sea Fish Atlas:
Latest Observations - SeaKeys:
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Comments
COOL Fish
Very clever!
Rhinecanthus aculeatus, the Rainbow Nation Triggerfish.
Typo..sorry
Good identification!
The original for the logo was based on a photo of the picasso triggerfish (Rhinecanthus aculeatus) and was much more realistic in profile. If I can find the artwork I will try to upload a copy. The current version was modified by a professional artist.
Peter Southwood
Reef surveys and equipment design.
Southern Underwater Research Group (SURG)
Should I
tag all my previously posted marine/littoral (i.e. tidal pool) observations with SeaKeys?
Occasional Hungarian princess who believes: Indigenous plants have every aspect covered
Up to you.
Up to you.
Certainly all your future ones if you want to participate in the atlas!
I would say: if a toss up between new observations and going back, then new observations please.
A coordinator!!
Congratulations to Rose Palmer as the Sea Fish Atlas coordinator!
Looking forward to this Atlas immensely!!
thanks!
it will be very exciting to see what we get out of it!
SeaKeys Fish Atlas Coordinator
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@SeaKeysSA (twitter)
Congratulations!
Hope you have LOADS of fun - love seeing the tweets @ACEP_ZA! Stunning programme!
Occasional Hungarian princess who believes: Indigenous plants have every aspect covered
ACEP
Yes have been getting some amazing footage of reef off durban, will definitely be getting more photos up on here from the trip in the near future :)
SeaKeys Fish Atlas Coordinator
[email protected]
https://www.facebook.com/SeaKeys
@SeaKeysSA (twitter)
really COOL fish
This is a really COOL fish. What is the fish in the logo? It is for real?