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University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Division of Fishes

Specimen Records: 207,559
Media Records: 0
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2026-04-23

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
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
dwc_datasetid_added  i201101
96.889
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i201101
96.889
dwc_taxonid_added  i201101
96.889
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i201101
96.889
gbif_canonicalname_added  i201101
96.889
gbif_genericname_added  i201101
96.889
gbif_taxon_corrected  i201101
96.889
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i200905
96.794
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i200779
96.733
gbif_reference_added  i198690
95.727
gbif_vernacularname_added  i194534
93.725
geopoint_datum_missing  i180862
87.138
dwc_multimedia_added  i160612
77.381
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i126037
60.723
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i119056
57.36
taxon_match_failed  i22970
11.067
rev_geocode_eez  i16726
8.058
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i11238
5.414
dwc_genus_replaced  i8757
4.219
dwc_order_replaced  i7558
3.641
dwc_family_replaced  i5591
2.694
dwc_country_replaced  i2368
1.141
rev_geocode_mismatch  i2070
0.997
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i739
0.356
rev_geocode_failure  i527
0.254
dwc_continent_replaced  i473
0.228
dwc_phylum_replaced  i436
0.21
dwc_class_replaced  i409
0.197
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i273
0.132
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i181
0.087
dwc_genus_added  i40
0.019
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i35
0.017
rev_geocode_corrected  i26
0.013
geopoint_0_coord  i13
0.006
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i13
0.006
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i10
0.005
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i3
0.001
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i1
0
dwc_order_added  i1
0
dwc_specificepithet_added  i1
0
geopoint_similar_coord  i1
0
rev_geocode_flip  i1
0
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i1
0
rev_geocode_flip_lon_sign  i1
0