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Canadian Museum of Nature Fish Collection

Specimen Records: 63,181
Media Records: 1,198
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-11-25

Our Fish Collection contains more than 754 190 specimens in 63 655 lots of fluid-preserved specimens. We have about 1740 type specimens that are mainly paratypes. We have a good representation of freshwater and marine species, predominately from North American high latitudes. The museum holds the best Canadian Arctic and lamprey collection in the world.

Contacts

Name Kamal Khidas
RoleCurator, Vertebrate Zoology
Emailkkhidas@nature.ca
Name Rob Blades
RoleDigital Collections Information Manager
Emailrblades@nature.ca
Name Stéphanie Tessier
RoleAssistant Collection Manager
Emailstessier@nature.ca
Name Kamal Khidas
RoleCurator, Vertebrate Zoology
Emailkkhidas@nature.ca
Name Marie-Hélène Hubert
RoleCollection Technician
Emailmhhubert@nature.ca
Name Gregory Rand
RoleAssistant Collection Manager
Emailgrand@nature.ca
Name Kamal Khidas
RoleCurator, Vertebrate Zoology
Emailkkhidas@nature.ca
Name Stéphanie Tessier
RoleManager, Fish Collection
Emailstessier@nature.ca
  • 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
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i60675
96.034
geopoint_datum_missing  i59370
93.968
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87.711
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69.469
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69.469
dwc_taxonid_added  i43891
69.469
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i43891
69.469
gbif_canonicalname_added  i43891
69.469
gbif_genericname_added  i43891
69.469
gbif_taxon_corrected  i43891
69.469
gbif_reference_added  i42566
67.372
gbif_vernacularname_added  i39850
63.073
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i39289
62.185
dwc_multimedia_added  i37702
59.673
dwc_specificepithet_added  i32001
50.65
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41.269
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34.634
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33.771
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32.09
taxon_match_failed  i8774
13.887
dwc_family_replaced  i7536
11.928
rev_geocode_mismatch  i906
1.434
rev_geocode_failure  i811
1.284
dwc_class_replaced  i516
0.817
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0.557
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0.5
dwc_genus_replaced  i184
0.291
rev_geocode_corrected  i146
0.231
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i106
0.168
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i106
0.168
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i100
0.158
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i89
0.141
dwc_country_replaced  i41
0.065
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i41
0.065
dwc_genus_added  i39
0.062
dwc_phylum_replaced  i19
0.03
geopoint_0_coord  i11
0.017
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i6
0.009
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i6
0.009
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i5
0.008
geopoint_similar_coord  i4
0.006
geopoint_bounds  i3
0.005
geopoint_datum_error  i2
0.003
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