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Academy of Natural Sciences Ichthyology Collection

Specimen Records: 158,639
Media Records: 0
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-05-23

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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96.562
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96.562
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96.562
dwc_taxonid_added  i153185
96.562
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i153185
96.562
gbif_canonicalname_added  i153185
96.562
gbif_genericname_added  i153185
96.562
gbif_taxon_corrected  i153185
96.562
dwc_class_added  i153110
96.515
dwc_order_added  i152991
96.44
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i152553
96.164
gbif_reference_added  i151250
95.342
gbif_vernacularname_added  i139498
87.934
dwc_multimedia_added  i110068
69.383
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i87466
55.135
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53.315
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i55868
35.217
rev_geocode_eez  i45406
28.622
dwc_country_replaced  i38764
24.435
taxon_match_failed  i18215
11.482
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10.781
dwc_continent_added  i16759
10.564
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i14792
9.324
dwc_taxonrank_added  i10313
6.501
dwc_genus_replaced  i8193
5.165
dwc_family_replaced  i6198
3.907
geopoint_low_precision  i1201
0.757
dwc_continent_replaced  i868
0.547
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i674
0.425
dwc_taxonrank_invalid  i490
0.309
dwc_taxonrank_removed  i490
0.309
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i241
0.152
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i114
0.072
rev_geocode_mismatch  i104
0.066
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i82
0.052
rev_geocode_failure  i73
0.046
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i4
0.003
geopoint_0_coord  i1
0.001
geopoint_similar_coord  i1
0.001
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