Field Museum of Natural History (Zoology) Fish Collection

Occurrence
Latest version published by Field Museum on Dec 21, 2022 Field Museum

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Description

Established in 1894, The Field Museum fish collection now contains more than 1,700,000 specimens, 130,000 lots, 10,000 species, 4,500 tissuesamples, 3,500 skeletons, 1,400 nominal types, and 450 families. Specimens range from the lobe-finned Coelacanth and lungfishes, to a diversity of freshwater catfishes and cichlids, to charismatic reef fishes such as the amazing Slingjaw Wrasse and venomous Red Lionfish.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 126,880 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Occurrence (core)
126880
Multimedia 
26823

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Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Field Museum. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.

GBIF Registration

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Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence

Contacts

Sharon Grant
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  • Point Of Contact
Technology Liaison to Science
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Kate Webbink
  • Originator
Field Museum of Natural History
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Caleb McMahan
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Collections Manager
Field Museum of Natural History
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Kevin Swagel
Collections
Field Museum of Natural History
Susan Mochel
Collections
Field Museum of Natural History

Geographic Coverage

Global

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Additional Metadata

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Alternative Identifiers afc30a94-6107-488a-b9c0-ba9c4fa68b7c
https://fmipt.fieldmuseum.org/ipt/resource?r=fmnh_fishes