Last update: 08 September 2011

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    Websites (fish, gobies and water-land evolutionary transition):

  • Amami-gobies - many photos and infos on Japanese gobies - in Japanese

  • Brian W. Coad's Personal Website - scientific website of Brian Coad, curator of the ichthyological collection of the Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Canada

  • CAS - Catalog of Fishes - The online bible of the taxonomic ichthyological nomenclature; by William Eschmeyer

  • Devonian Times - a nice scientific website with a lot of information on the palaeoecology of the Devonian (third edition, 2005); by Dennis C. Murphy

  • Fishbase - probably the most visited and extensive online database of fishes; by Froese, R. and Pauly, D.

  • Gobiidae.com - images, scientific information, literature, keys, discussion lists (special section on Gobiosomatini); by Jim Van Tassell (Gobioid Research Institute)

  • Goby frontiers - a Japanese website with photographs of gobies - in Japanese and in English

  • Jenny Clack Home Page - the web site of Dr. Jennifer A.Clack, with lots of information about the Devonian sea-land transition and the first semi-terrestrial tetrapods; by Dr. J.A. Clack (University of Cambridge)

  • Kazetoge - a Japanese website with interesting movie clips of Boleophthalmus pectinirostris in aquarium - in Japanese

  • Life at the edge of reef - a very big website with many information on several reef species from the Indo-Pacific region (North Sulawesi) and about diving; the website and the marine biology laboratory is maintained by Dr. Massimo Boyer and his staff

  • Marli's mudskipperland - a Japanese website on mudskippers kept in aquaria - in Japanese

  • Mediterranean Gobies - a website on gobies from the Mediterranean Sea; systematics and some general scientific information; by Prof. Robert A. Patzner (University of Salzburg)

  • Mudskippers - the English Wikipedia web page on mudskippers; multiple reviewers

  • Mudskipper World - another Japanese website on mudskippers; scientific facts and other recreational info - in Japanese;
    MudskipperWorld - English - the NEW English version! By Dr. Yuko Nakazato Ikebe (International Society for Mangrove Ecosystems)

  • Mukai's Encyclopedia of Goby - a Japanese website on gobies' systematics and evolution; by Dr. Takahiko Mukai (Gifu University)

  • Peri-life - a web site dedicated to Periophthalmus mudskippers; by Ralf Theuer - in German

  • Primitive fishes - a web site on lungfishes, gars, bichirs and bowfin; by David S., Ph.D. student (University of Michigan)

  • Schlammspringer.npage.de - a web site on how to take care of mudskippers of the genus Periophthalmus; by Frank Wrobbel - in German

  • Ryan Photographic: Dr Paddy Ryan - a nice website full of pictures, literature, stories, etc. on a variety of organisms, including mudskippers, mostly coming from Fiji islands; by Dr. Paddy Ryan

  • The Goby Company - an Austrian website mainly on European gobies, their anatomy and systematics; by Dr. Harald Ahnelt (University of Vienna)

  • The RivMar Webpage - A very interesting scientific review on Rivulus marmoratus, a neotropical fish capable of amphibious behaviours, and the only known vertebrate true hermaphrodite. by Dr. Bruce J. Turner




  • Other websites:


  • Algorithmic Botany - an interesting website on Biological Modeling and Visualization; by Prof. Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz (University of Calgary)

  • BES - British Ecological Society

  • Dennis Kunkel Microscopy, Inc. - Scientific stock photography through the microscope

  • Google Maps - a useful on line mapper

  • IGS - The International Goby Society

  • ISEB - Italian Society of Evolutionary Biologists

  • Palaeos - The Trace of Life on Earth: a nice and huge website on paleontology and earth history, with many images and references; by Dr. A.T. White & many collaborators

  • SICB - Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology

  • The Sundarbans Tiger Project - Conservation biology and ecology of tigers in one of the largest mangrove formations in the world; by Dr. Adam Barlow and the Bangladesh Forest Department

  • Wordreference - a useful online dictionary which is continuously growing, with online forums, excellent for translations to and from English to Italian, Spanish and French



  • Mailing lists on gobies:


  • gobygroup - by far the most active list on gobies; both for scientists and hobbyists

  • gobiidae - dedicated to scientific issues




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