Preparation and Publication of a Catalog of Species of Fishes and Completion of Taxonomic Databases for Ichthyology

William Eschmeyer博士是旧金山加州科学院鱼类收藏的负责人。Eschmeyer博士已经开始着手一项雄心勃勃的项目，准备和传播世界鱼类的两大数据资源：1)一个计算机数据库，包含50000多条与活鱼种类相对应的记录和它们的20000个参考书目，2)一个已出版的物种目录和它们在已出版文献中的原始描述。这些物种水平的参考文献将扩展Eschmeyer博士最近完成的鱼类属目录的结果。从进化系统学家到渔业管理人员，所有从事鱼类研究的生物学家都将使用拟议的信息资源。出版的物种目录及其相应的计算机数据库将对一系列研究学科产生广泛的影响。

Dr. William Eschmeyer is the Curator in charge of the fish collection at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. Dr. Eschmeyer has embarked on an ambitious project to prepare and disseminate of two large data resources for the world's fish species: 1) a computer database of 50,000+ records corresponding to the species of living fish and their 20,000 bibliographic references, and 2) a published catalog of the species and their original descriptions in the published literature. These species- level references will extend the results of Dr. Eschmeyer's recently completed catalog of fish genera. The proposed information resources would be used by the entire spectrum of biologists working with fishes, ranging from evolutionary systematists to fisheries managers. The published catalog of species and its corresponding computer database will have wide impact on an array of research disciplines.