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The reptiles and amphibians collection (RA) of the Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN - Paris)

Specimen Records: 204,294
Media Records: 14,862
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-06-23

The collection of Reptiles and Amphibians of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle started in the early 19th century and has handwritten catalogues that date from 1864. The records in the Reptile and Amphiphibian database were transcribed from these catalogues. Most entries have not yet been checked for errors or verified against the collections. Thus there is a great heterogeneity in taxonomy and in geographical information. Beside the individual labelling system, the collection uses numbers to store specimens according to their specific name. This allows attaching to this number various historical names and the valid one. Locality names are written usually in French transliteration. Our curators and collection managers can help users concerning these issues. Search results will give only part of the information available on the database. They help the researchers to learn about the holdings of the collection and the gross geographical origin. More detailed information can be obtained by writing to the curators. The results should not be used as primary data without check back to the specimens. The issue of the database is to prepare loan requests or visits to the collection. For any request contact: http://colhelper.mnhn.fr/

Contacts

Name MNHN
RoleProvider
Emailnone
Name Simon Chagnoux
Rolenone
Emailgbifprovider@mnhn.fr
Name Roge Bour
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Alain Dubois
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Ivan Ineich
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Annemarie Ohler
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Laure Pierre
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Jérôme Courtois
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Laure Pierre
RoleCorrespondant
Emailnone
  • 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_added  i146090
71.51
dwc_kingdom_added  i146090
71.51
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i146090
71.51
dwc_phylum_added  i146090
71.51
dwc_taxonid_added  i146090
71.51
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i146090
71.51
dwc_taxonrank_added  i146090
71.51
gbif_canonicalname_added  i146090
71.51
gbif_genericname_added  i146090
71.51
gbif_taxon_corrected  i146090
71.51
dwc_specificepithet_added  i121134
59.294
gbif_vernacularname_added  i120765
59.113
gbif_reference_added  i116836
57.19
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i73725
36.088
dwc_multimedia_added  i68818
33.686
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i55967
27.395
taxon_match_failed  i45399
22.222
dwc_continent_replaced  i44687
21.874
dwc_family_added  i38416
18.804
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i34304
16.791
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i20396
9.984
dwc_continent_added  i19767
9.676
dwc_country_replaced  i13664
6.688
dwc_family_replaced  i6682
3.271
dwc_order_replaced  i4816
2.357
dwc_order_added  i4813
2.356
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i4013
1.964
geopoint_datum_missing  i3693
1.808
dwc_class_added  i2792
1.367
dwc_genus_replaced  i1683
0.824
geopoint_low_precision  i1077
0.527
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i376
0.184
dwc_class_replaced  i179
0.088
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i165
0.081
datecollected_bounds  i110
0.054
rev_geocode_eez  i56
0.027
rev_geocode_failure  i15
0.007
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i6
0.003
rev_geocode_mismatch  i5
0.002
geopoint_pre_flip  i3
0.001
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