The Scorpiones collection (RS) of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN - Paris)

Specimen Records: 947

Media Records: 1,422

iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-07-24

This dataset is the databased part of the Scorpiones from the terrestrial arthropods collections of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris). The MNHN scorpion collection is one of the most important in the world, due to a long tradition of work on this group at the museum. The collection began to be formed towards the middle of the 19th century and still contains types of some species described from this period by authors like Audouin, Savigny, Gervais and Guérin-Ménéville. The collection was considerably augmented during the period 1880‒1910 by E. Simon, who described numerous species either collected by himself or received through his extensive network of correspondents. During the 20th century scorpions were studied at the museum by Fage and by his successor, M. Vachon. Since the 1970s, systematic activity on the collection has continued intensively through the work of W. Lourenço, who was a student of Vachon. As a result, the collection is both large and rich, containing an unusually high proportion of type material. In addition to material studied by authors working at the museum, a significant part has come from outside sources, either through gift or exchange. Thus it also contains material studied by authorities such as R.I. Pocock, T. Thorell, K. Kraepelin, W.D. Sissom and V. Fet. The scorpion collection is worldwide in scope, but the best represented regions are tropical South America, North Africa, the Middle East, Western Africa, Madagascar and Southeast Asia. It contains over 9000 lots, including about 700 types, preserved in 80 % alcohol and stored in the museum’s Zoothèque. The collections are made available to external researchers, either through loans or visits, at the discretion of the curator. In cases where neither is feasible, photographic documentation of specimens may be provided on request.

Contacts

Name	MNHN
Role	Provider
Email	none

Name	Simon Chagnoux
Role	none
Email	gbifprovider@mnhn.fr

Name	Mark Judson
Role	none
Email	none

Name	Élise-Anne Leguin
Role	none
Email	none

Name	Laurent Albenga
Role	Correspondant
Email	none

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.

Flag	Records With This Flag	(%) Percent With This Flag
dwc_datasetid_added i	754	79.62
dwc_kingdom_added i	754	79.62
dwc_parentnameusageid_added i	754	79.62
dwc_phylum_added i	754	79.62
dwc_taxonid_added i	754	79.62
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added i	754	79.62
dwc_taxonrank_added i	754	79.62
gbif_canonicalname_added i	754	79.62
gbif_genericname_added i	754	79.62
gbif_taxon_corrected i	754	79.62
dwc_specificepithet_added i	713	75.29
idigbio_isocountrycode_added i	379	40.021
dwc_continent_replaced i	372	39.282
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced i	336	35.48
geopoint_datum_missing i	311	32.841
dwc_multimedia_added i	197	20.803
dwc_originalnameusageid_added i	120	12.672
gbif_vernacularname_added i	105	11.088
geopoint_low_precision i	105	11.088
gbif_reference_added i	73	7.709
dwc_family_replaced i	53	5.597
taxon_match_failed i	39	4.118
dwc_genus_replaced i	24	2.534
dwc_country_replaced i	17	1.795
rev_geocode_eez i	14	1.478
rev_geocode_mismatch i	14	1.478
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added i	7	0.739
geopoint_pre_flip i	6	0.634
rev_geocode_corrected i	6	0.634
dwc_taxonremarks_added i	4	0.422
rev_geocode_lon_sign i	4	0.422
rev_geocode_failure i	3	0.317
rev_geocode_flip_lat_sign i	2	0.211
dwc_stateprovince_replaced i	1	0.106

Month of	Search	Download	Seen	Records Viewed	Media Viewed
06 / 2023	11,815,899	1,031	7	0	0
07 / 2023	11,373,237	3,920	7	0	0
08 / 2023	10,758,626	0	10	0	0
09 / 2023	13,482,998	2,537	11	2	2
10 / 2023	17,430,918	28,848	18	0	0
11 / 2023	15,366,603	2,940	4	0	0
12 / 2023	12,778,085	0	210	0	0
01 / 2024	20,887,682	434	45	0	0
02 / 2024	30,394,824	8,800	48	0	0
03 / 2024	31,568,703	131,586	12	0	0
04 / 2024	41,012,608	9,759	1	0	0
05 / 2024	171,818,829	95,892	21	0	0
06 / 2024	65,363,371	9,065	4	0	0
07 / 2024	37,244,268	22,613	103	0	0
08 / 2024	207,527,808	34,053	1,305	0	0
09 / 2024	71,800,265	2,124	769	0	0
10 / 2024	51,101,020	18,514	208	0	0
11 / 2024	63,705,800	132	36	0	0
12 / 2024	22,250,604	0	7	0	0
01 / 2025	53,453,759	0	16	0	0
02 / 2025	29,457,278	1,902	151	0	0
03 / 2025	12,614,115	0	1	0	0
04 / 2025	22,743,276	0	607	0	0
05 / 2025	19,950,714	0	54	0	0
06 / 2025	13,299,278	0	101	0	0
07 / 2025	2,141,325	0	0	0	0
08 / 2025	20,236,175	0	44	0	0
09 / 2025	21,875,180	1	235	0	0
10 / 2025	198,693,736	4,188	150	1	1
11 / 2025	228,556,613	8	7,193	0	0
12 / 2025	208,727,359	257	19	0	0
01 / 2026	73,359,044	5,416	2,851	0	0
02 / 2026	107,795,482	20	387	142	97
03 / 2026	114,907,667	3,794	1,574	415	227
04 / 2026	171,169,087	4,496	3,326	171	77
05 / 2026	222,818,729	0	2,673	188	120
06 / 2026	146,508,144	0	1,651	278	186

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Recordset

The Scorpiones collection (RS) of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN - Paris)

Contacts