BISMaL: The Biological Information System for Marine Life

BISMaL is a integrated database for biodiversity information, particularly in biogeographic data of marine organisms. It mainly collects information of marine organisms around Japan, and provides photographs, movies, distribution records, references and brief descriptions of morphology/ecology of each species or its higher taxon. Users are able to search and browse species by scientific names and/or keywords, or also search external databases (e.g. Google Scholar) by using the scientific name, which is indicated on the page top, as a search key.