The fish collection of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem is the largest and most diverse that this group currently has in the Middle East, and it includes more than 21,500 individuals, most of them from the Mediterranean, the Red Sea and fresh water sources within Israel. It began at the beginning of the 20th century and over the years smaller collections and material collected by research expeditions were added to it. The collection was expanded with details from inland water sources, Africa and North America, as well as marine details from the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.

GBIF url: https://www.gbif.org/dataset/52ff7a75-4354-464c-9765-eca68cf90859
Homepage: https://en-nnhc.huji.ac.il/fishes-collection
Citation: David L (2026). Fish - The National Natural History Collections. Version 1.4. The National Natural History Collections. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/sevzj4 accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-08-07.