About The Fish Directory

The Fish Directory is an open, free, and Creative Commons licensed fish directory to help us find our fishes.

The site was started from the need to identify the creatures in underwater vacation pictures. Finding fish online is actually very difficult, as you might have noticed, unless you know their specific names such as Freckled Hawkfish or Orangespined Unicornfish.

The purpose of this directory is to help find fishes based on shape, color or identifications such as masks or stripes, as well as their families and regions.

The list of fishes is in no means complete yet, and includes coral reef fish only. However, I hope it’s still helpful and you may find the fish you were looking for. You can also download and use the pictures, but please link back to this site.

Also, feel free to comment if you didn’t find what you were looking for, or if you found the site useful.

See you underwater!

Thanks,

Sami Salmenkivi

Mail: sami.salmenkivi at gmail.com for any questions or corrections.

3 Responses to “About The Fish Directory”

  1. Petra Bartholomé Says:

    January 5, 2009 at 9:38 pm

    Hello Sami Salmenkivi

    nice website!
    check this out
    http://www.yourdivebook.com

    Petra

    Reply
  2. Ingo Feisthamel Says:

    January 7, 2009 at 4:23 pm

    Hi,

    This is a very nice website you created!
    We just went online with our new service for scuba divers:

    http://www.yourdivebook.com

    We would like to take some of your really great pictures to fill our underwater life database.
    If you like our site, maybe we even can work together in terms of linking our sites.

    Keep on with your work!
    Nice regards,
    Ingo Feisthamel

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  3. Anna Says:

    August 20, 2009 at 6:40 pm

    Hello,

    I wanted to express how mush I enjoyed this website. The images are so beautiful and some are really breathtaking.

    I stumbled on your site while trying to identify a fish we saw while snorkeling in Akumal Bay. I can’t find it anywhere. It’s rather large with uniform light silver color. Very small scales and a pointy back fin… I have some pictures of it and if you think you could help and would like to take a look please email me and I will send them to you. Maybe you can finally resolve this mystery :) .

    Anna
    Ann Arbor, Michigan

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