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.
- Taxonomic description
- No information
- Geographic description
- Worldwide
- Temporal description
- No information
- Code
- ICHTHY
- Number of specimens in collection
- 0
- Online Catalog/Database
- Homepage
- Content types
- Unknown
- Preservation types
- Unknown
- Accession status
- Unknown
Contacts
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- Illinois
- City/Town
- Chicago
- Postal/Zip Code
- 60605-2496
- Address
- Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive
- Mailing address
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- Illinois
- City/Town
- Chicago
- Postal/Zip Code
- 60605-2496
- Address
- The Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 S Lake Shore Drive
C
Caleb McMahan
Collection Manager
DB
Deborah Bekken
Director, Gantz Family Collections Center
C
Caleb McMahan
Identifiers
- Code
- ICHTHY
- Alternative codes
- FMNHCode from replaced entity 7ed978ec-5f70-4b0f-a1dd-9a53270dbccc
- Identifiers
- LSID
- UUIDurn:uuid:b8b4508d-c8ed-45b7-ac0c-53f52436d732
- UUID7ed978ec-5f70-4b0f-a1dd-9a53270dbccc
- GRSCICOLL URI
- GRSCICOLL URI
- GRSCICOLL ID4376
Entry created: April 23, 2013
Last modified: August 21, 2024
Modified by: mgrosjean