Established in 1894, The Field Museum fish collection now contains more than 1,700,000 specimens, 130,000 lots, 10,000 species, 4,500 tissuesamples, 3,500 skeletons, 1,400 nominal types, and 450 families. Specimens range from the lobe-finned Coelacanth and lungfishes, to a diversity of freshwater catfishes and cichlids, to charismatic reef fishes such as the amazing Slingjaw Wrasse and venomous Red Lionfish.
GBIF url: https://www.gbif.org/dataset/afc30a94-6107-488a-b9c0-ba9c4fa68b7c
Homepage: http://fieldmuseum.org/explore/department/zoology/fishes/collections
Citation: Grant S, Webbink K, McMahan C (2022). Field Museum of Natural History (Zoology) Fish Collection. Version 13.13. Field Museum. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/alz7wu accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-04-29.