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MSB Fish Collection (Arctos)

Specimen Records: 121,612
Media Records: 0
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-05-23

The MSB Division of Fishes supports research of the ichthyofauna of a region in North America noted for a wide range of ecotypes and elevational gradients, from the Rocky Mountains to the Great Basin and the Great Plains, with the convergence of three major deserts, the Chihuahua, Sonora, and Mojave. The fishes of New Mexico (and the southwestern US) are characterized by high endemism, low diversity, and remarkable physiological tolerances. The MSB collections are particularly valuable because aquatic habitats in the region are declining as demands on water increase due to human population growth and global climate changes. The MSB collections of fishes provides a 80-year window on the natural history of New Mexico's imperiled native fishes and aquatic systems. The MSB has over 100,000 cataloged lots of fishes (ca. 4,153,582 specimens),representing 66 families, 200 genera, and 443 species. Approximately 1/3 of the collection consists of fish eggs and larvae as part of ongoing river monitoring programs and life history studies in desert fishes.

Contacts

Name Thomas Turner
RoleCurator of Fishes
EmailTurnert@unm.edu
Name Alexandra Snyder
RoleCollection Manager
Emailamsnyder@unm.edu
Name David Bloom
RoleVertNet Coordinator
Emaildbloom@vertnet.org
Name Dusty McDonald
RoleArctos Database Programmer
Emaildlmcdonald@alaska.edu
Name Alexandra Snyder
RoleCollection Manager
Emailamsnyder@unm.edu
Name Thomas Turner
RoleCurator of Fishes
Emailturnert@unm.edu
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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
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99.957
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99.901
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97.629
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67.373
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67.373
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67.373
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67.373
gbif_canonicalname_added  i81934
67.373
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67.373
gbif_taxon_corrected  i81934
67.373
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67.362
gbif_reference_added  i80596
66.273
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66.263
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61.101
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61.037
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42.335
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19.06
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15.847
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2.565
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1.136
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1.136
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1.039
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0.722
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0.269
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0.266
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0.264
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0.223
dwc_kingdom_replaced  i269
0.221
dwc_class_added  i235
0.193
geopoint_low_precision  i224
0.184
dwc_order_replaced  i94
0.077
dwc_family_replaced  i44
0.036
rev_geocode_eez  i36
0.03
dwc_taxonrank_added  i17
0.014
geopoint_0_coord  i3
0.002
geopoint_similar_coord  i3
0.002
rev_geocode_failure  i3
0.002
dwc_continent_replaced  i1
0.001
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