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Field Museum of Natural History (Zoology) Fish Collection

Specimen Records: 126,880
Media Records: 26,701
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2023-01-11

Established in 1894, The Field Museum fish collection now contains more than 1,700,000 specimens, 130,000 lots, 10,000 species, 4,500 tissuesamples, 3,500 skeletons, 1,400 nominal types, and 450 families. Specimens range from the lobe-finned Coelacanth and lungfishes, to a diversity of freshwater catfishes and cichlids, to charismatic reef fishes such as the amazing Slingjaw Wrasse and venomous Red Lionfish.

Contacts

Name Sharon Grant
RoleTechnology Liaison to Science
Emailsgrant@fieldmuseum.org
Name Kate Webbink
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Caleb McMahan
RoleCollections Manager
Emailkswagel@fieldmuseum.org
Name Kevin Swagel
RoleCollections
Emailnone
Name Susan Mochel
RoleCollections
Emailnone
Name Sharon Grant
RoleTechnology Liaison to Science
Emailsgrant@fieldmuseum.org
  • 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
dwc_datasetid_replaced  i121858
96.042
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i121858
96.042
dwc_taxonid_added  i121858
96.042
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i121858
96.042
dwc_taxonrank_added  i121858
96.042
gbif_canonicalname_added  i121858
96.042
gbif_genericname_added  i121858
96.042
gbif_taxon_corrected  i121858
96.042
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i119345
94.061
gbif_reference_added  i118375
93.297
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i114007
89.854
gbif_vernacularname_added  i109021
85.924
geopoint_datum_missing  i105193
82.907
dwc_multimedia_added  i84931
66.938
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i60334
47.552
rev_geocode_eez  i40571
31.976
dwc_country_replaced  i31603
24.908
taxon_match_failed  i15276
12.04
dwc_order_added  i14870
11.72
dwc_class_added  i14770
11.641
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i14701
11.587
geopoint_low_precision  i11647
9.18
dwc_genus_replaced  i11360
8.953
dwc_family_replaced  i7422
5.85
dwc_continent_replaced  i5948
4.688
rev_geocode_mismatch  i1599
1.26
dwc_order_replaced  i1416
1.116
rev_geocode_failure  i706
0.556
dwc_class_replaced  i675
0.532
dwc_phylum_replaced  i636
0.501
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i602
0.474
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i577
0.455
dwc_specificepithet_added  i268
0.211
rev_geocode_corrected  i264
0.208
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i157
0.124
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i141
0.111
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i66
0.052
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i56
0.044
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i52
0.041
geopoint_0_coord  i21
0.017
dwc_phylum_added  i19
0.015
dwc_family_added  i9
0.007
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i3
0.002
geopoint_similar_coord  i2
0.002
datecollected_bounds  i1
0.001
rev_geocode_flip  i1
0.001
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