Welcome!

This is a photographic guide to the living species of the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco California for docent teaching purposes.

 

This site is has been developed by Ron DeCloux a docent at the Academy for docent educational use concentrating on the Steinhart Aquarium and is primarily organized by creature families and habitats. The Rainforest section is an exception being organized by rainforest exhibits.

 

The flickr photographs were mostly taken at the California Academy of Sciences by Ron DeCloux.

 

Text information on photos is obtained from the Docent Field Guide to the Species of The Steinhart Aquarium edited by Sandy Linder. In addition information was obtained from multiple listed references as well as those cited on specific critters.

 

Reference sources include the following.

 

The California Academy of Sciences Web site www.calacademy.org

Note: This site is independent of the California Academy of Sciences and is note sponsored by them. Ronald DeCloux is responsible for its content

 

Aquarium of the Pacific www.aquariumofpacific.org/onlinelearningcenter/category/B...

 

Monterey Bay Aquarium

 

ADW, Animal Diversity Web animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html University of Michigan.

 

Arkive www.arkive.org/

 

Biodiversity Heritage Library www.biodiversitylibrary.org/

 

Association of Zoos and Aquariums www.aza.org/

 

EOL Encyclopedia of Life eol.org/

 

Fishbase www.fishbase.org

 

Florida Museum of Natural History www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Gallery/Descript/ButterflyReef/But...

 

JSTOR www.jstor.org/

 

OAC, Online Archive of California www.oac.cdlib.org/

 

Redlist www.iucnredlist.org/

 

U.S. Fish and Wildlife www.fws.gov

 

URL: nas.er.usgs.gov

 

Amphibiaweb amphibiaweb.org/index.htmlfish

 

Cal Herps www.californiaherps.com/

 

National Marine Fisheries Service and NOAA www.nmfs.noaa.gov

 

All About Birds (Cornell) www.allaboutbirds.org

 

Cornell Lab of Ornithology www.birds.cornell.edu/education2/kids/idbirds

 

National Aviary www.aviary.org/about-us

 

xeno-canto Sharing bird sounds from around the world www.xeno-canto.org/about/xeno-canto

 

National Geographic animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/reptiles/green-tur...

 

BOOKS

Peterson Field Guides

Sibley Guides

Pacific Marine Fishes / Burgess, Axelrod

Encyclopedia of Turtles / Pritchard

Specific field guides by many publishers on a variety of specific science subjects

 

Ron DeCloux