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Canadian Museum of Nature Fish Collection

Specimen Records: 63,229
Media Records: 1,205
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2026-04-23

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
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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96.027
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93.97
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69.481
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69.481
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69.481
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69.481
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69.481
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69.481
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69.481
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67.385
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63.077
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62.179
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59.704
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50.681
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34.638
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11.928
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1.286
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geopoint_bounds  i3
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geopoint_datum_error  i2
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