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license: CC0-1.0
title: 'rfishbase: R Interface to ''FishBase'''
version: 5.0.2
identifiers:
- type: doi
  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.rfishbase
abstract: A programmatic interface to 'FishBase', re-written based on an accompanying
  'RESTful' API. Access tables describing over 30,000 species of fish, their biology,
  ecology, morphology, and more. This package also supports experimental access to
  'SeaLifeBase' data, which contains nearly 200,000 species records for all types
  of aquatic life not covered by 'FishBase.'
authors:
- family-names: Boettiger
  given-names: Carl
  email: cboettig@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1642-628X
- family-names: Chamberlain
  given-names: Scott
  email: myrmecocystus@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1444-9135
- family-names: Temple Lang
  given-names: Duncan
- family-names: Wainwright
  given-names: Peter
preferred-citation:
  type: article
  title: 'rfishbase: exploring, manipulating and visualizing FishBase data from R'
  authors:
  - family-names: Boettiger
    given-names: Carl
    email: cboettig@ropensci.org
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1642-628X
  - family-names: Temple Lang
    given-names: Duncan
  - family-names: Wainwright
    given-names: Peter
  month: '11'
  year: '2012'
  publisher:
    name: Wiley-Blackwell
  journal: Journal of Fish Biology
  url: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8649.2012.03464.x
repository: https://ropensci.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/ropensci/rfishbase
commit: 0e093e41539d5f1edc6774ddc564a02715996689
url: https://docs.ropensci.org/rfishbase/
date-released: '2025-12-16'
contact:
- family-names: Boettiger
  given-names: Carl
  email: cboettig@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1642-628X