Subject Guides: Darling Marine Center Information Resources: Reference Sources

eBook Reference

Encyclopedia of Coastal Science by Maurice L. Schwartz (Editor); M. Schwartz (Editor)
Encyclopedia of Estuaries by Michael J. Kennish (Editor);
Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change by S. George Philander (Editor)
Encyclopedia of Marine Science by C. Reid Nichols; Robert G. Williams
Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences by J. Kirk Cochran (Editor-In-Chief); Henry J. Bokuniewicz (Editor-In-Chief); Patricia L. Yager (Editor-In-Chief)
Publication Date: 2019
Elements of Physical Oceanography by John H. Steele (Editor); Steve A. Thorpe (Editor); Karl K. Turekian (Editor)
Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology by Robert A. Meyers (Editor)
Encyclopedia of Tidepools and Rocky Shores by Mark W. Denny (Editor); Steven D. Gaines (Editor)

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Handbooks

Use dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks to learn about a topic and to find keywords and subject terms to use when searching indexes and databases.

Looking for less specific encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, manuals or atlases? Use our Reference Sources resource guide for help. This guide lists both print and electronic resources.

Directories and Collections

Catalog of Fishes
The Catalog of Fishes is the authoritative reference for taxonomic fish names, featuring a searchable on-line database. From the California Academy of Sciences.
The Echinoid Directory
Designed and created by Andrew B Smith, Department of Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum.
Encyclopedia of Life
Online directory of all 1.8 million known species on Earth.
Ichthyology Primary Types Imagebase
The California Academy of Sciences Department of Ichthyology type collection contains over 37,000 specimens.
Marine Life of the Gulf of Maine
Image gallery and species information. From Andrew J. Martinez Photography.
MBLWHOI Library Digital Herbarium
Flora of Cape Cod, Massachusetts and associated coastal islands with over 2,200 algae specimens. Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
National Exotic Marine and Estuarine Species Information System (NEMESIS)
NEMESIS is a resource for information on non-native (or exotic) species that occur in coastal marine waters of the United States. From the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC)
Scripps Institution of Oceanography Marine Vertebrate Collection
University of California, San Diego.
World List of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans
Originally from the Smithsonian Institute, now hosted by the Flanders Marine Institute and overseen by an editorial board.
WoRMS World Register of Marine Species
The World Register of Marine Species aims to provide the most authoritative list of names of all marine species globally, ever published.

Associations and Societies

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Atlases

Coral Reef Information System Glossary
Over 6,000 terms related to coral reefs. NOAA, Coral Reef Information System.
Dictonary of Ichthyology
B.W. Coad and D.E. McAllister.
FAO Fisheries Glossary
FAO Glossary of Aquaculture
National Marine Sanctuaries Live
NOAA, National Marine Sanctuaries.
NOAA Fisheries Glossary
NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-F/SPO-69. 2006.

Handbooks and Manuals

Coastal Water Temperature Guide
NOAA, National Centers for Environmental Information
Crustacea.net
Information retrieval system for crustaceans of the world. Australian Museum.
The ANSP Algae Image Database
Patrick Center for Environmental Research, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University.
FishBase
The world's most comprehensive electronic encyclopedia on fish.
Fishery and Aquaculture Country Profiles
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Fishes of the Gulf of Maine
Bigelow, H.B. and Schroeder, W.C. 1953. Fishery Bulletin of the Fish and Wildlife Service, Volume 53.
Sea Around Us- Large Marine Ecosystems
Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, the University of British Columbia
Manual of Diagnostic Tests for Aquatic Animals 2018
World Organisation for Animal Health.