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Canadian Museum of Nature Mammal Collection

Specimen Records: 59,668
Media Records: 360
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-05-23

The Canadian Museum of Nature's Mammal Collection contains ca. 85,000 study skins, pelts, mounts, and skeletons, representing approximately 600 species. The museum holds the most comprehensive collection of Canadian mammals, with extensive coverage of Arctic regions. Carnivores, ungulates, rodents, and marine mammals are well-represented. The museum also holds many cetacean tissue samples (both dry and fluid-preserved) that were collected in the North Atlantic during commercial whaling operations in the 1960s and early 1970s.

Contacts

Name Kamal Khidas
RoleCurator, Vertebrate Zoology
Emailkkhidas@nature.ca
Name Rob Blades
RoleDigital Collections Information Manager
Emailrblades@nature.ca
Name Kamal Khidas
RoleCurator, Vertebrate Zoology
Emailkkhidas@nature.ca
Name Stéphanie Tessier
RoleAssistant Collection Manager
Emailstessier@nature.ca
Name Gregory Rand
RoleAssistant Collection Manager
Emailgrand@nature.ca
Name Marie-Hélène Hubert
RoleCollection Technician
Emailmhhubert@nature.ca
Name Kamal Khidas
RoleCurator, Vertebrate Zoology
Emailkkhidas@nature.ca
Name Gregory Rand
RoleManager, Mammal Collection
Emailgrand@nature.ca
  • Data Corrected
  • Data Use
  • Raw
This table shows any data corrections that were performed on this recordset to improve the capabilities of iDigBio Search. The first column represents the correction performed. The last two columns represent the number and percentage of records that were corrected. A complete list of the data quality flags and their descriptions can be found here. Clicking on a data flag name will take you to a search for all records with this flag in this recordset.
FlagRecords With This Flag(%) Percent With This Flag
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i58902
98.716
dwc_continent_added  i55503
93.02
geopoint_datum_missing  i44449
74.494
dwc_datasetid_added  i38510
64.54
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i38510
64.54
dwc_taxonid_added  i38510
64.54
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i38510
64.54
gbif_canonicalname_added  i38510
64.54
gbif_genericname_added  i38510
64.54
gbif_taxon_corrected  i38510
64.54
gbif_vernacularname_added  i37511
62.866
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i36859
61.773
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i36634
61.396
dwc_multimedia_added  i36491
61.157
gbif_reference_added  i29736
49.836
geopoint_low_precision  i26296
44.071
rev_geocode_eez  i6873
11.519
dwc_specificepithet_added  i1445
2.422
dwc_family_replaced  i1094
1.833
dwc_genus_replaced  i987
1.654
rev_geocode_mismatch  i730
1.223
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i682
1.143
taxon_match_failed  i468
0.784
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i342
0.573
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i342
0.573
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i120
0.201
dwc_country_replaced  i65
0.109
rev_geocode_failure  i39
0.065
rev_geocode_corrected  i8
0.013
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i4
0.007
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i4
0.007
geopoint_pre_flip  i2
0.003
geopoint_similar_coord  i2
0.003
rev_geocode_both_sign  i2
0.003
dwc_class_replaced  i1
0.002
dwc_family_added  i1
0.002
dwc_genus_added  i1
0.002
dwc_order_replaced  i1
0.002
dwc_phylum_replaced  i1
0.002
geopoint_bounds  i1
0.002
geopoint_datum_error  i1
0.002
rev_geocode_flip_lat_sign  i1
0.002
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i1
0.002
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