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General
CephBase, online since 1998, is a dynamic relational database-driven web site co-created by James B. Wood and Catriona L. Day. The purpose of CephBase is to provide taxonomic data, life history, distribution, images, videos, references and scientific contact information on all living species of cephalopods (octopus, squid, cuttlefish and nautilus) in an easy to access, user-friendly manner. CephBase collaborates with The Cephalopod Page, FishBase, FAO,CSIRO Marine Research, University of Kansas Hexacorallia Group, CIAC, The Sea Around Us Project and many individuals listed on our Collaborators page.
Browser
CephBase works and looks best using MS Internet Explorer 5 or 6 or Netscape 6 or higher, however it is still capable of running under IE 4 or Netscape 4.
Technical
Data are housed in MS Access 2000 and are served from a Dell PowerEdge 2400 server running Windows 2000 and Cold Fusion Server.
Support
The CephBase project is supported by the National Oceanographic Partnership Program and is physically located at the National Resource Center for Cephalopods at the University of Texas Medical Branch. CephBase is part of the Census of Marine Life, an international program to explain the diversity, distribution and abundance of marine life.
Team
Dr. James B. Wood - Co-author and Project Manager, NRCC, UTMB, Galveston, TX
Catriona L. Day - Co-author and Webmaster, Fisheries Centre, UBC, Vancouver, Canada
David del Pino - Computer and technical support, NRCC, UTMB, Galveston, TX
Dr. Phil Lee - Principal Investigator, NRCC, UTMB, Galveston, TX
John W. Forsythe - Image and video specialist, NRCC, UTMB, Galveston, TX
Contact
CephBase welcomes any comments and suggestions you have regarding this site. Email Catriona Day: caday@utmb.edu.
Join our growing list of collaborators by sending images, videos, data (eg. latitude/longitude, predator and prey data), reprints, and papers dealing with recent taxonomic revisions to add to CephBase. Your contributions are greatly appreciated! Please email lakoppe@utmb.edu or send to:
Laura Koppe
CephBase librarian
National Resource Center for Cephalopods
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, TX 77555-1163
USA