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The crustaceans collection (IU) of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN - Paris)

Specimen Records: 112,438
Media Records: 29,669
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-05-23

The collection covers all groups of crustaceans (except the very rare Remipedia and Tantulocarida). Consisting of some 100 000 inventoried lots arranged in systematic order, and with about 6000 type specimens, this collection is one of the richest in the world for its diversity. The collection was established before 1800 with the collections of the explorer naturalists (voyages of Bougainville, Savigny, Dumont D'Urville ...) and then continued, notably with those of the Travailleur and the Talisman. The collection has benefited from the work of prestigious scientists like Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Latreille, H. and A. Milne-Edwards, and Chevreux. The specimens, measuring 1 mm to over 2 m in size, are mainly preserved in alcohol. Some are kept dry (old collections such as the historical collection of crabs), others as slide preparations. The collection includes worldwide material of marine, freshwater and terrestrial crustaceans (including pest species). The collection grows 1 to 1.5% per year on average, varying according to the group, thanks to numerous donations and deposits. For 25 years the "Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos" (formely MUSORSTOM) expeditions have resulted in the largest collection in the world from the deep-water (bathyal) environment.

Contacts

Name MNHN
RoleProvider
Emailnone
Name Simon Chagnoux
Rolenone
Emailgbifprovider@mnhn.fr
Name Danièle Defaye
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Paula Martin-Lefèvre
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Laure Corbari
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Anouchka Sato
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Julien Brisset
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Régis Cleva
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Paula Martin-Lefèvre
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
geopoint_datum_missing  i90058
80.096
rev_geocode_eez  i82513
73.385
dwc_datasetid_added  i50321
44.754
dwc_kingdom_added  i50321
44.754
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i50321
44.754
dwc_phylum_added  i50321
44.754
dwc_taxonid_added  i50321
44.754
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i50321
44.754
dwc_taxonrank_added  i50321
44.754
gbif_canonicalname_added  i50321
44.754
gbif_genericname_added  i50321
44.754
gbif_taxon_corrected  i50321
44.754
dwc_specificepithet_added  i48534
43.165
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i38049
33.84
gbif_reference_added  i36509
32.47
dwc_continent_added  i34176
30.395
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i13910
12.371
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i13347
11.871
taxon_match_failed  i12363
10.995
gbif_vernacularname_added  i9406
8.365
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i5354
4.762
geopoint_low_precision  i4977
4.426
dwc_family_replaced  i4545
4.042
dwc_multimedia_added  i4135
3.678
dwc_continent_replaced  i3844
3.419
dwc_genus_replaced  i1959
1.742
rev_geocode_failure  i1655
1.472
dwc_order_replaced  i842
0.749
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i438
0.39
dwc_family_added  i352
0.313
dwc_order_added  i226
0.201
datecollected_bounds  i141
0.125
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i137
0.122
dwc_country_replaced  i64
0.057
rev_geocode_mismatch  i41
0.036
dwc_class_added  i16
0.014
rev_geocode_corrected  i8
0.007
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i8
0.007
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i8
0.007
dwc_class_replaced  i4
0.004
geopoint_pre_flip  i1
0.001
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