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VIMS Nunnally Ichthyology Collection

Specimen Records: 49,147
Media Records: 0
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-05-23

The Nunnally Ichthyology Collection at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science and the College of William & Mary preserves a library of fishes from Virginia, the Chesapeake Bay, the North Atlantic, and the world beyond. The collection supports VIMS’ tripartite mission of research, education, and advisory service by engaging a broad community of basic and applied research scientists worldwide, providing the foundation for graduate education and research, and inspiring the public by sharing the biodiversity of fishes and the research that is being done to gain a better understanding of the natural world. The collection also serves the Commonwealth of Virginia as a repository for voucher specimens collected by state agencies and as a record of the fishes of Virginia. The VIMS collection currently maintains over 35,000 catalogued lots of fishes (c. 350,000 total specimens) and includes specimens from 316 families and 1,031 genera. These holdings include fluid preserved fishes stored in 70% ethanol, dried skeletons, and cleared and stained skeletons. The VIMS collection also houses a number of specimens of significant general scientific interest, including two specimens of the Coelacanth, a whole-body specimen of a juvenile Great White Shark, and unique distributional records (e.g., an Ocean Sunfish from the Chesapeake Bay). Four “themes” can be noted as unique strengths of the collection: Fishes of Chesapeake Bay and the Coast of Virginia, Deep-sea Fishes of the Western North Atlantic, Freshwater Fishes of Virginia, and Larval Fishes.

Contacts

Name Sarah Huber
RoleCuratorial Associate
Emailskhuber@vims.edu
Name Sarah Huber
Role Curatorial Associate
Email skhuber@vims.edu
Name Ben Anhalt
RoleResearch Architect
Emailanhalt@ku.edu
Name Sarah Huber
RoleCuratorial Associate
Emailskhuber@vims.edu
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  • 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
dwc_datasetid_added  i41980
85.417
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i41980
85.417
dwc_taxonid_added  i41980
85.417
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i41980
85.417
dwc_taxonrank_added  i41980
85.417
gbif_canonicalname_added  i41980
85.417
gbif_genericname_added  i41980
85.417
gbif_taxon_corrected  i41980
85.417
dwc_family_replaced  i41935
85.326
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i41930
85.315
gbif_reference_added  i41623
84.691
gbif_vernacularname_added  i40115
81.622
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i33420
68
dwc_multimedia_added  i30499
62.057
geopoint_datum_missing  i28300
57.582
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i25083
51.037
rev_geocode_eez  i12244
24.913
taxon_match_failed  i3775
7.681
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i2393
4.869
dwc_class_replaced  i1633
3.323
dwc_order_replaced  i1298
2.641
rev_geocode_failure  i1267
2.578
dwc_genus_replaced  i891
1.813
rev_geocode_mismatch  i245
0.499
dwc_continent_replaced  i161
0.328
dwc_country_replaced  i125
0.254
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i93
0.189
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i58
0.118
rev_geocode_corrected  i31
0.063
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i27
0.055
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i18
0.037
datecollected_bounds  i3
0.006
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i2
0.004
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i1
0.002
dwc_specificepithet_added  i1
0.002
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i1
0.002
rev_geocode_flip  i1
0.002
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i1
0.002
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