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UF FLMNH Ichthyology

Specimen Records: 240,302
Media Records: 8,599
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-08-22

The UF Fish Collection, dating to 1917, contains 214,205 lots and 2,300,803 specimens. Included are representatives of 8,250 species from 400 families. The collection includes 93 primary types and approximately 1,600 lots of secondary types representing 563 species. Also in the collection are 5,825 specimens of disarticulated and articulated skeletons representing 875 species. Especially notable are historic collections of large and important marine fishes as well as rapidly growing collections of freshwater fishes from Southeast Asia. In 2006, the museum expanded its program to archive frozen tissue samples with a newly established UF Genetic Resources Collection. Tissues of fishes are stored in -20ºC freezers and number 4,150 samples of 900 species. All specimens and tissues are databased online and available for loan.

Contacts

Name Rob Robins
RoleIchthyology Collection Manager
Emailrhrobins@flmnh.ufl.edu
Name Rob Robins
RoleIchthyology Collection Manager
Emailrhrobins@flmnh.ufl.edu
Name Rob Robins
RoleIchthyology Collection Manager
Emailrhrobins@flmnh.ufl.edu
Name Rob Robins
RoleIchthyology Collection Manager
Emailrhrobins@flmnh.ufl.edu
  • Data Corrected
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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
geopoint_datum_missing  i234371
97.532
dwc_datasetid_added  i231499
96.337
dwc_kingdom_added  i231499
96.337
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96.337
dwc_phylum_added  i231499
96.337
dwc_taxonid_added  i231499
96.337
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i231499
96.337
dwc_taxonrank_added  i231499
96.337
gbif_canonicalname_added  i231499
96.337
gbif_genericname_added  i231499
96.337
gbif_taxon_corrected  i231499
96.337
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i231305
96.256
gbif_reference_added  i230525
95.931
gbif_vernacularname_added  i224623
93.475
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i218220
90.811
dwc_multimedia_added  i182382
75.897
dwc_country_replaced  i168116
69.96
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i133138
55.404
rev_geocode_eez  i102822
42.789
dwc_continent_replaced  i101711
42.326
dwc_order_replaced  i91266
37.98
dwc_family_replaced  i37489
15.601
taxon_match_failed  i22013
9.161
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i6540
2.722
scientificname_added  i4586
1.908
dwc_genus_replaced  i2788
1.16
rev_geocode_mismatch  i2509
1.044
geopoint_low_precision  i1859
0.774
rev_geocode_failure  i744
0.31
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i580
0.241
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i439
0.183
rev_geocode_corrected  i271
0.113
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i174
0.072
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i155
0.065
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i75
0.031
geopoint_0_coord  i39
0.016
geopoint_similar_coord  i28
0.012
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i17
0.007
dwc_class_replaced  i12
0.005
datecollected_bounds  i8
0.003
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i8
0.003
rev_geocode_flip_lon_sign  i6
0.002
rev_geocode_both_sign  i4
0.002
rev_geocode_flip  i4
0.002
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i2
0.001
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