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Academy of Natural Sciences Ichthyology Collection

Specimen Records: 158,927
Media Records: 0
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-09-22

Established in 1812, The Academy of Natural Sciences hosts one of the most important collections of preserved fishes in the world with an estimated 1.6 million specimens in 155,000 lots representing more than 15,000 species. The collection is particularly rich in catfishes (Order Siluriformes), minnows (Cypriniformes) and eels (Anguilliformes). Geographically, its strengths include freshwater species of North and South America and marine species of the North Atlantic and Indian Oceans. ANSP also has one of the world’s largest collections of fish types with 2,797 primary and 17,881 secondary type specimens representing 1,857 and 2,048 species/subspecies, respectively. In total, ANSP types represent ~3,086 species/subspecies and ~8.4% of all fish species ever named as such (as of Jan 2024). Specimens aside, staff have assembled and curate ~18,000 frozen tissue samples of thousands of fish species primarily from the U.S. and South America.

Contacts

Name Mark Sabaj Perez
RoleInterim Curator
Emailmhs58@drexel.edu
Name BDIM Account
Rolenone
Emailans_bdim@drexel.edu
Name Mark Sabaj Perez
RoleInterim Curator
Emailmhs58@drexel.edu
Name Robert Noonan
RoleDatabase Programmer
Emailrn487@drexel.edu
  • 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
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94.294
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94.294
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94.294
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94.294
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i149858
94.294
gbif_canonicalname_added  i149858
94.294
gbif_genericname_added  i149858
94.294
gbif_taxon_corrected  i149858
94.294
dwc_class_added  i149778
94.243
dwc_order_added  i149679
94.181
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i149589
94.124
gbif_reference_added  i148071
93.169
gbif_vernacularname_added  i138845
87.364
dwc_multimedia_added  i108216
68.092
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i87382
54.982
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i84580
53.219
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i55980
35.224
rev_geocode_eez  i45406
28.57
dwc_country_replaced  i38873
24.46
dwc_country_added  i17106
10.763
dwc_continent_added  i16847
10.6
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i13624
8.572
dwc_taxonrank_added  i10236
6.441
dwc_genus_replaced  i7972
5.016
taxon_match_failed  i7853
4.941
dwc_family_replaced  i6012
3.783
geopoint_low_precision  i1201
0.756
dwc_continent_replaced  i868
0.546
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i671
0.422
dwc_taxonrank_invalid  i496
0.312
dwc_taxonrank_removed  i496
0.312
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i241
0.152
rev_geocode_mismatch  i104
0.065
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i78
0.049
rev_geocode_failure  i73
0.046
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i21
0.013
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i4
0.003
geopoint_0_coord  i1
0.001
geopoint_similar_coord  i1
0.001
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