Fishes of Texas Project (FoTX) Database and Website - Darwin Core

Registro biológico Observación
Última versión publicado por University of Texas at Austin, Biodiversity Collections el mar. 31, 2026 University of Texas at Austin, Biodiversity Collections
Fecha de publicación:
31 de marzo de 2026
Licencia:
CC0 1.0

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Descripción

<p>The Fishes of Texas Project (www.fishesoftexas.org) provides a centralized, quality-controlled, and open-access database of freshwater fish occurrences to enhance ichthyological research and aquatic resource management within the state of Texas and its shared basins. By aggregating over 895,000 records from museum specimens, agency reports, and citizen science platforms, the project employs rigorous data verification and georeferencing protocols to correct historical misidentifications and spatial outliers. The platform integrates interactive mapping, species distribution models (SDMs), and comprehensive species accounts to facilitate the visualization of temporal and geographic trends in biodiversity. These high-resolution data products have directly informed state conservation priorities, including the designation of Species of Greatest Conservation Need (SGCN) and the establishment of Native Fish Conservation Areas (NFCAs). Ultimately, this collaborative framework serves as a critical baseline for assessing the impacts of climate change, habitat fragmentation, and invasive species on Texas's diverse aquatic ecosystems.</p>

Registros

Los datos en este recurso de registros biológicos han sido publicados como Archivo Darwin Core(DwC-A), el cual es un formato estándar para compartir datos de biodiversidad como un conjunto de una o más tablas de datos. La tabla de datos del core contiene 895.586 registros.

Este IPT archiva los datos y, por lo tanto, sirve como repositorio de datos. Los datos y los metadatos del recurso están disponibles para su descarga en la sección descargas. La tabla versiones enumera otras versiones del recurso que se han puesto a disposición del público y permite seguir los cambios realizados en el recurso a lo largo del tiempo.

Versiones

La siguiente tabla muestra sólo las versiones publicadas del recurso que son de acceso público.

¿Cómo referenciar?

Los usuarios deben citar este trabajo de la siguiente manera:

Hendrickson D A, Cohen A E, Urban T (2026). Fishes of Texas Project (FoTX) Database and Website - Darwin Core. Version 1.18. University of Texas at Austin, Biodiversity Collections. Occurrence dataset. doi:10.17603/C3WC70

Derechos

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El publicador y propietario de los derechos de este trabajo es University of Texas at Austin, Biodiversity Collections. En la medida de lo posible según la ley, el publicador ha renunciado a todos los derechos sobre estos datos y los ha dedicado al Dominio público (CC0 1.0). Los usuarios pueden copiar, modificar, distribuir y utilizar la obra, incluso con fines comerciales, sin restricciones.

Registro GBIF

Este recurso ha sido registrado en GBIF con el siguiente UUID: ba5b0f3a-73dd-459f-a7f1-9abc327aed00.  University of Texas at Austin, Biodiversity Collections publica este recurso y está registrado en GBIF como un publicador de datos avalado por GBIF-US.

Palabras clave

Occurrence; Observation; Occurrence; Fish; Texas; Biodiversity; Conservation; Voucher; Museum Specimen; Biogeography; Native Fish Conservation Area; Species Distribution Model; Data Improvement

Contactos

Dean A. Hendrickson
  • Proveedor De Los Metadatos ●
  • Originador ●
  • Punto De Contacto
  • Ichthyology Curator
University of Texas at Austin, Biodiversity Center
  • 10100 Burnet RD, PRC 176/R4000
78758-4445 Austin
TX
US
  • +01 512-471-9774
Adam E. Cohen
  • Proveedor De Los Metadatos ●
  • Originador ●
  • Punto De Contacto
  • Ichthyology Collections Manager
University of Texas at Austin, Biodiversity Center
  • 10100 Burnet RD, PRC 176/R4000
78758-4445 Austin
TX
US
  • +01 512-471-8845
Tomislav Urban
  • Punto De Contacto
University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center
  • 10100 Burnet RD, PRC 205/R8700
78758-4445 Austin
TX
US
Tomislav Urban
  • Punto De Contacto
  • Senior Software Developer
Texas Advanced Computing Center
Austin
TX
US
Melissa J. Casarez
  • Procesador
  • Ichthyology Collections Assistant Manager
University of Texas at Austin, Biodiversity Center
  • 10100 Burnet RD, PRC 176/R4000
78758 Austin
TX
US
  • +01 512-475-8171
F. Douglas Martin
  • Procesador
University of Texas, Biodiversity Collections
Casey Hartsough
  • Programador
  • Programmer
University of Texas, Biodiversity Collections

Cobertura geográfica

Our study area includes Texas and shared drainage basins going into neighbor states and the Gulf of Mexico (north of a line drawn from the southeastern edge of Louisiana to the southeastern edge of Tamaulipas). Data were obtained by database searches or personal requests for data from that area. In many cases provider databases lacked the data fields to allow discovery of those records, in which case we requested data from larger geographic areas (e.g. country). All records that were acquired are provided in the database, but only those in our study area have received the full processing efforts (georeferencing, suspect flagging, specimen examination, date corrections etc).

Coordenadas límite Latitud Mínima Longitud Mínima [24,447, -109,16], Latitud Máxima Longitud Máxima [40,914, -88,682]

Cobertura taxonómica

All fish taxa

Orden Acipenseriformes, Amiiformes, Anguilliformes, Atheriniformes, Beloniformes, Characiformes, Clupeiformes, Cypriniformes, Cyprinodontiformes, Esociformes, Gadiformes, Gasterosteiformes, Gobiesociformes, Lepisosteiformes, Mugiliformes, Myliobatiformes, Osmeriformes, Osteoglossiformes, Perciformes, Percopsiformes, Petromyzontiformes, Pleuronectiformes, Salmoniformes, Scorpaeniformes, Siluriformes, Synbranchiformes, Syngnathiformes
Familia Goodeidae

Cobertura temporal

Época de existencia 1700s to recent

Datos del proyecto

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.

Título Fishes of Texas (FoTX) Project Database and Website
Identificador FoTX
Fuentes de Financiación 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/
Descripción del área de estudio 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.
Descripción del diseño Specimens are collected by various and often undocumented means. Information about sampling gear, methods and habitats is recorded in our database when available.

Personas asociadas al proyecto:

Dean A. Hendrickson
  • Custodio De Los Datos
Adam E. Cohen
  • Custodio De Los Datos
Tomislav Urban
  • Programador
Melissa Casarez
  • Procesador
F. Douglas Martin
  • Procesador
Ben J. Labay
  • Procesador
Colton Avila
  • Procesador
Casey Hartsough
  • Programador
Ryan Rash
  • Procesador

Métodos de muestreo

The Fishes of Texas Project is a data acquisition and improvement project and thus includes data collected by others using various means. More recent funding has allowed the Fishes of Texas Project team to collect specimens from data gaps detected in the database using various collection methods. See our documentation to learn more: http://www.fishesoftexas.org/documentation/

Área de Estudio Our study area includes Texas and shared drainage basins going into neighbor states and the Gulf of Mexico (north of a line drawn from the eastern edge of Louisiana to the southern edge of Tamaulipas). Data were obtained based on database searches or personal requests for data from that area. In many cases provider data lacked the data fields to allow discovery of those records, in which case we requested data from larger geographic areas (eg. country). All records that were acquired are provided in the database, but only those in our study area have received the full processing efforts (georeferencing, suspect flagging, specimen examination, date corrections etc).
Control de Calidad Records from many disparate sources have been brought into a common format and standardized (taxa names, dates, and collector names in particular) allowing them to be queried in a single database. Localities have been georeferenced (including error estimate) if possible. These steps allowed us to map the records of each species and detect spatial and temporal outliers, which we flagged as "suspect". Early versions of the database were strictly specimen based and we've made extensive efforts to find specimens that we flagged and examine them to correct determination errors. See our documentation to learn more: http://www.fishesoftexas.org/documentation/

Descripción de la metodología paso a paso:

  1. After data were acquired, either directly from source or via online data aggregator, they were (1) re-formatted; (2) georeferenced to coordinates with an error radius estimate (those then determined to be in our study area received the most complete data standardization); (3) standardized (when possible) taxa to AFS Common and Scientific Names of Fishes or the GBIF backbone; (4) standardized collector names when possible; (5) standardized dates to begin and end dates; (6) flagged records that we thought had erroneous data as "suspect" records; (7) examined "suspect" specimens, which usually turn out to be mis-identifications. See our documentation to learn more: http://www.fishesoftexas.org/documentation/

Metadatos adicionales

Propósito
Descripción de mantenimiento Data are refreshed monthly, but actual updates to those data are expected less-frequently.
Identificadores alternativos ba5b0f3a-73dd-459f-a7f1-9abc327aed00
https://ipt.tacc.utexas.edu/resource?r=fotx