Occurrence dataset Registered July 10, 2012
Field Museum of Natural History (Zoology) Fish Collection
Published by Field Museum
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.
Geographic scope
- Description
Global
- Bounding box
- Latitude
- From -90 to 90
- Longitude
- From -180 to 180
Metrics
Additional info
https://www.fieldmuseum.org/field-museum-natural-history-conditions-and-suggested-norms-use-collections-data-and-images
Contacts
- Organization
- Field Museum of Natural History
- Position
- Technology Liaison to Science
- Address
- 1400 S Lake Shore Drive
- Roles
- Originator
Administrative point of contact - Phone
- User ID
Kate Webbink
Originator- Organization
- Field Museum of Natural History
- Address
- 1400 S Lake Shore Drive
- Roles
- Originator
- Organization
- Field Museum of Natural History
- Position
- Collections Manager
- Address
- 1400 S Lake Shore Drive
- Roles
- Metadata author
Kevin Swagel
Administrative point of contact- Organization
- Field Museum of Natural History
- Position
- Collections
- Roles
- Administrative point of contact
Susan Mochel
Administrative point of contact- Organization
- Field Museum of Natural History
- Position
- Collections
- Roles
- Administrative point of contact
GBIF registration
- Registration date
- July 10, 2012
- Metadata last modified
- December 21, 2022
- Publication date
- December 21, 2022
- Hosted by
- Field Museum
- Installation
- Field Museum of Natural History IPT
- Endpoints
- Darwin Core Archive
- EML
- Preferred identifier
- 10.15468/alz7wu
- Alternative identifiers
Citation
Grant S, Webbink K, McMahan C (2022). Field Museum of Natural History (Zoology) Fish Collection. Version 13.13. Field Museum. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/alz7wu accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-01-18.