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Academy of Natural Sciences Ichthyology Collection

Specimen Records: 159,401
Media Records: 0
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2026-02-24

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
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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94.19
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94.19
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94.19
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94.19
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94.19
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94.19
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94.14
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94.078
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94.021
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93.068
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68.012
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54.82
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53.148
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28.485
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24.398
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10.733
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10.582
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6.598
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4.999
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0.151
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0.065
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