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The birds collection (ZO) of the Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN - Paris)

Specimen Records: 62,782
Media Records: 101,372
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-05-23

Two databases concern the bird collections of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle de Paris. The database AVES covers skins and mounted specimens, but the collection includes also eggs, nests and alcoholic preparations. Today, this collection numbers some 180 000 specimens, including approximately 2500 types. Search results follow Howard and Moore Checklist (updated to corrigenda) and taxonomic sequence. The upper geographical rank conforms to the ISO 3166-1 code. Undetermined locality does not necessarily mean that the information is no available, but that its validity has not yet been checked. This and others additional information are sometime accessible by consulting label photographs that we progressively add to the database. The database ZAC (acronym for “Zoology, Comparative anatomy”) exists since 2010. It is the result of the merger of MAMMALIA (former collection of “Zoologie, Mammifères et Oiseaux”) and ANATOMIC (former collection of “Anatomie comparée”). This database concerns skeletons (mounted or not) and fluid preserved specimens (formalin). More information can be obtained by writing to the curators and collection managers. The database will help you prepare loan requests or visits to the collection. For any request contact: http://colhelper.mnhn.fr/

Contacts

Name MNHN
RoleProvider
Emailnone
Name Simon Chagnoux
Rolenone
Emailgbifprovider@mnhn.fr
Name Patrick Boussès
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Cécile Callou
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Jérôme Fuchs
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Christine Lefèvre
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Patrick Boussès
RoleCorrespondant
Emailbousses@mnhn.fr
  • 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
geopoint_datum_missing  i36283
57.792
dwc_datasetid_added  i31029
49.423
dwc_kingdom_added  i31029
49.423
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i31029
49.423
dwc_phylum_added  i31029
49.423
dwc_taxonid_added  i31029
49.423
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i31029
49.423
dwc_taxonrank_added  i31029
49.423
gbif_canonicalname_added  i31029
49.423
gbif_genericname_added  i31029
49.423
gbif_taxon_corrected  i31029
49.423
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i30660
48.836
gbif_vernacularname_added  i29897
47.62
dwc_multimedia_added  i28658
45.647
dwc_class_added  i27208
43.337
gbif_reference_added  i27148
43.242
dwc_specificepithet_added  i25448
40.534
taxon_match_failed  i15052
23.975
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i13948
22.217
dwc_continent_replaced  i13017
20.734
geopoint_low_precision  i12966
20.652
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i12164
19.375
dwc_country_replaced  i4446
7.082
rev_geocode_eez  i2877
4.583
dwc_family_replaced  i1325
2.11
dwc_order_replaced  i1224
1.95
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i1016
1.618
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i627
0.999
dwc_genus_replaced  i509
0.811
rev_geocode_mismatch  i56
0.089
geopoint_0_coord  i21
0.033
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i19
0.03
dwc_genus_added  i8
0.013
rev_geocode_failure  i8
0.013
dwc_class_replaced  i6
0.01
dwc_family_added  i4
0.006
dwc_order_added  i4
0.006
datecollected_bounds  i2
0.003
geopoint_bounds  i2
0.003
geopoint_similar_coord  i2
0.003
rev_geocode_corrected  i2
0.003
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i2
0.003
dwc_continent_added  i1
0.002
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i1
0.002
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