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University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Division of Fishes

Specimen Records: 193,473
Media Records: 0
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-09-22

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  i193457
99.992
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i188200
97.275
dwc_datasetid_added  i186389
96.339
dwc_kingdom_added  i186389
96.339
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i186389
96.339
dwc_phylum_added  i186389
96.339
dwc_taxonid_added  i186389
96.339
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i186389
96.339
gbif_canonicalname_added  i186389
96.339
gbif_genericname_added  i186389
96.339
gbif_taxon_corrected  i186389
96.339
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i186155
96.218
gbif_reference_added  i184452
95.337
gbif_vernacularname_added  i181065
93.587
geopoint_datum_missing  i171765
88.78
dwc_multimedia_added  i149398
77.219
dwc_continent_replaced  i143223
74.027
dwc_country_replaced  i121692
62.899
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i117488
60.726
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i110476
57.102
rev_geocode_eez  i15821
8.177
dwc_family_replaced  i9517
4.919
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i8740
4.517
dwc_genus_replaced  i8309
4.295
taxon_match_failed  i7564
3.91
dwc_order_replaced  i5704
2.948
dwc_class_replaced  i4532
2.342
rev_geocode_mismatch  i3550
1.835
rev_geocode_corrected  i1213
0.627
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i1180
0.61
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i865
0.447
rev_geocode_failure  i582
0.301
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i177
0.091
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i130
0.067
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i123
0.064
dwc_taxonremarks_replaced  i54
0.028
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i25
0.013
datecollected_bounds  i22
0.011
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i20
0.01
geopoint_0_coord  i20
0.01
geopoint_similar_coord  i5
0.003
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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