Fishes of Texas Project (FoTX) Database - Darwin Core

This is the database of the Fishes of Texas Project (www.fishesoftexas.org). The project aims to bring together in one database all of the specimen data pertaining to fishes of Texas. Initial efforts focused on specimen data, which we believe should be the foundation of our knowledge about Texas fish biogeography, but recognizing the value of other types of data, later efforts include the addition of non-specimen data.

Texas and its shared drainages in neighbor states and the Gulf of Mexico north of a line drawn from the eastern edge of Louisiana to the southern edge of Tamaulipas.

Specimens are collected by various and often undocumented means. Information about sampling gear, methods and habitats is recorded in our database when available.

Funding has been provided primarily by Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, University of Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, and the US Department of the Interior. See http://www.fishesoftexas.org/documentation/sponsors/