| familySearch | A function to find all fish that are members of a scientific Family |
| findSpecies | Returns the matching indices in the data given a list of species names |
| fish.data | A cached copy of extracted FishBase data, 14 Febuary 2013. |
| fish_names | Return the scientific names, families, classes, or orders of the input data |
| getDepth | Returns available depth range data |
| getQuantTraits | Returns all quantitative trait values found in the morphology data |
| getRefs | Returns the FishBase reference id numbers matching a query. |
| getSize | Returns available size data of specified type (length, weight, or age) |
| habitatSearch | A function to search for the occurances of any keyword in habitat description |
| labridtree | An example phylogeny of labrid fish |
| loadCache | Load an updated cache |
| updateCache | Update the cached copy of fishbase data |
| which_fish | which_fish is the the generic search function for fishbase a variety of description types |