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Canadian Museum of Nature Fish Collection

Specimen Records: 63,063
Media Records: 742
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-03-24

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
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94.531
geopoint_datum_missing  i58491
92.75
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86.211
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67.019
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67.019
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67.019
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67.019
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67.019
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67.019
gbif_taxon_corrected  i42264
67.019
gbif_reference_added  i40992
65.002
gbif_vernacularname_added  i38290
60.717
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i37765
59.885
dwc_multimedia_added  i36342
57.628
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46.652
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40.856
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34.749
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32.958
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29.604
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12.145
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1.351
rev_geocode_failure  i809
1.283
dwc_family_replaced  i763
1.21
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0.747
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0.541
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0.485
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0.285
rev_geocode_corrected  i146
0.232
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i106
0.168
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i106
0.168
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i100
0.159
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0.116
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0.113
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0.094
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0.065
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0.065
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0.017
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i6
0.01
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i5
0.008
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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