Fishes: Greater Caribbean

Fishes: Greater Caribbean was the second in a set of 3 portable electronic identification guides to neotropical shorefishes for Apple touch-screen devices from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. That set of apps will provide comprehensive coverage of the shore-fish faunas of all three neotropical marine biogeographic regions: the Tropical Eastern Pacific, the Greater Caribbean (Caribbean and adjacent areas) and Brazil. Together those 3 regions host about 25% of the world’s tropical shorefishes. Fishes: Greater Caribbean and its sister app, Fishes: East Pacific, have the same format and functionality, provide equivalent information and similar portable identification tools and work independently of the web after being downloaded. As well as acting as ID Guides both Apps allows users to make and organize lists that record information about species of fishes included in the App’s database and download those by email.