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University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Division of Fishes

Specimen Records: 193,453
Media Records: 0
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-06-23

The collections of the Fish Division comprise 193,555 cataloged lots, with over 3.4 million total specimens. 406 fish families, 2,901 genera and approximately 8,000 nominal species are represented in the collections. In addition to formalin-fixed, alcohol-preserved specimens, the collections contain 10,176 dry skeletons and 10,458 cleared and stained glycerin preparations. Type material representing more than 1,500 nominal species includes 626 primary type specimens and 4,385 lots of paratypes. Geographic strengths of the collections include North American fresh and marine waters, Southeast Asia, South America, and Mexico, but all major aquatic habitats are represented. Digital images of field notes (> 5,000 records) and fish specimens (> 6,000 images), as well as catalog records and other collection documents, are available to researchers upon request.

Contacts

Name UMMZ Fish Division Data Group
Rolenone
Emailummz-fish-data@umich.edu
Name Admins LSA IT
RoleLSA IT Admins
Emaillsa-it-infra-ipt-admins@umich.edu
Name Admins LSA IT
Rolenone
Emaillsa-it-infra-ipt-admins@umich.edu
Name UMMZ Fish Division Data Group
RoleGroup
Emailummz-fish-data@umich.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
scientificname_added  i193436
99.991
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i187815
97.086
dwc_datasetid_added  i186399
96.354
dwc_kingdom_added  i186399
96.354
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i186399
96.354
dwc_phylum_added  i186399
96.354
dwc_taxonid_added  i186399
96.354
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i186399
96.354
gbif_canonicalname_added  i186399
96.354
gbif_genericname_added  i186399
96.354
gbif_taxon_corrected  i186399
96.354
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i186165
96.233
gbif_reference_added  i184462
95.352
gbif_vernacularname_added  i181069
93.598
geopoint_datum_missing  i171742
88.777
dwc_continent_replaced  i162512
84.006
dwc_multimedia_added  i149392
77.224
dwc_country_replaced  i130609
67.515
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i117521
60.749
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i110485
57.112
rev_geocode_eez  i15889
8.213
dwc_family_replaced  i10437
5.395
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i8746
4.521
dwc_genus_replaced  i8300
4.29
taxon_match_failed  i7568
3.912
dwc_order_replaced  i6341
3.278
dwc_class_replaced  i5169
2.672
rev_geocode_mismatch  i3673
1.899
rev_geocode_corrected  i1325
0.685
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i1258
0.65
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i1205
0.623
rev_geocode_failure  i616
0.318
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i176
0.091
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i130
0.067
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i123
0.064
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i59
0.03
dwc_taxonremarks_replaced  i54
0.028
datecollected_bounds  i23
0.012
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i20
0.01
geopoint_0_coord  i20
0.01
geopoint_similar_coord  i14
0.007
rev_geocode_both_sign  i5
0.003
rev_geocode_flip  i1
0.001
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i1
0.001
rev_geocode_flip_lon_sign  i1
0.001
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