IMIS

National Museum of Natural History Vertebrate Zoology Fishes Collections

Citation

National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution NMNH Fishes Collection Database. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 10th and Constitution Ave. N.W., Washington, DC 20560-0193, 2007. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/1984

Access data

Archived data

Also accessible through:

collections.mnh.si.edu/search/fishes/

Availability:

This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description

The online Fish Collection database includes all relevant information for each cataloged lot of specimens. Please note that slightly over 50% of the holdings are presently listed and records are constantly added. Data included in the Locality field are directly from a collector's field notes or from cruise logs. Geographic retrieval fields added by cataloging staff are based on internally defined criteria and may not be geographically accurate.

Lineage

Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output

Scope

Themes:

Biology > Fish

Keywords:

Marine/Coastal, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, Museum collections, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, World Oceans

Geographical coverage

EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations

Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -44,9083; MinLat: 26 - MaxLong: 61,8; MaxLat: 80,2 [WGS84]

World Oceans [Marine Regions]

Contributors

Smithsonian Institution; National Museum of Natural History (NMNM), more, data owner, collection manager

Williams, Jeff

Related datasets

Published in:

EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more

OBIS-USA: US Ocean Biodiversity Informaton System, more

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