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The molluscs collection (IM) of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN - Paris)

Specimen Records: 303,438
Media Records: 72,412
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-07-24

The collection of marine, terrestrial and freshwater molluscs is primarily a scientific but also a historical and museological collection. It includes about 800 000 lots, totaling approximately 5 million specimens from around the world. These specimens are preserved as either dry collection (dried animals, shells) or in alcohol. The type collection contains 11 000 types of nominal species. The collection dates back to Michel Adanson (shells of Senegal, 1757) and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. It then increased through donations of amateur collectors, institutional legacies and purchases, and the activity of scientists from both the Museum and other institutions. This diversity of sources continues today, but large expeditions have been very important from the late eighteenth century through to the colonial era, a role they continue to play to this day. The "Tropical Deep-Sea benthos" oceanographic expeditions (formerly MUSORSTOM), launched in the early 1980s to sample the benthos of the tropical South and West-Pacific, have resulted in the collection becoming the best in the world for deep-sea faunas (100-1.500 m bathymetric zone). It is particularly rich in micromolluscs. Historical sections of the collection contain representatives of terrestrial and freshwater molluscs that are now extinct.

Contacts

Name MNHN
RoleProvider
Emailnone
Name Simon Chagnoux
Rolenone
Emailgbifprovider@mnhn.fr
Name Philippe Bouchet
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Barbara Buge
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Jérôme Mainguy
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Virginie Héros
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Pierre Lozouet
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Philippe Maestrati
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Gilberto Marani
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Pierre Lozouet
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  i258112
85.063
rev_geocode_eez  i215461
71.007
dwc_datasetid_added  i173659
57.23
dwc_kingdom_added  i173659
57.23
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i173659
57.23
dwc_phylum_added  i173659
57.23
dwc_taxonid_added  i173659
57.23
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i173659
57.23
dwc_taxonrank_added  i173659
57.23
gbif_canonicalname_added  i173659
57.23
gbif_genericname_added  i173659
57.23
gbif_taxon_corrected  i173659
57.23
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i125056
41.213
dwc_specificepithet_added  i123613
40.737
gbif_reference_added  i118197
38.953
dwc_continent_added  i118023
38.895
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i113073
37.264
dwc_multimedia_added  i94278
31.07
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i66448
21.898
taxon_match_failed  i63131
20.805
gbif_vernacularname_added  i41112
13.549
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i23735
7.822
dwc_order_added  i19956
6.577
dwc_order_replaced  i17282
5.695
geopoint_low_precision  i16996
5.601
dwc_family_replaced  i13391
4.413
dwc_continent_replaced  i6974
2.298
rev_geocode_failure  i3367
1.11
dwc_genus_replaced  i2496
0.823
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i1263
0.416
dwc_class_replaced  i1120
0.369
datecollected_bounds  i277
0.091
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i247
0.081
rev_geocode_mismatch  i225
0.074
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i189
0.062
dwc_class_added  i176
0.058
dwc_country_replaced  i175
0.058
dwc_family_added  i100
0.033
rev_geocode_corrected  i26
0.009
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i15
0.005
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i8
0.003
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i7
0.002
dwc_genus_added  i6
0.002
rev_geocode_flip  i4
0.001
geopoint_bounds  i1
0
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