Established in 1812, The Academy of Natural Sciences hosts one of the most important collections of preserved fishes in the world with an estimated 1.6 million specimens in 155,000 lots representing more than 15,000 species. The collection is particularly rich in catfishes (Order Siluriformes), minnows (Cypriniformes) and eels (Anguilliformes). Geographically, its strengths include freshwater species of North and South America and marine species of the North Atlantic and Indian Oceans. ANSP also has one of the world’s largest collections of fish types with 2,797 primary and 17,881 secondary type specimens representing 1,857 and 2,048 species/subspecies, respectively. In total, ANSP types represent ~3,086 species/subspecies and ~8.4% of all fish species ever named as such (as of Jan 2024). Specimens aside, staff have assembled and curate ~18,000 frozen tissue samples of thousands of fish species primarily from the U.S. and South America.
GBIF url: https://www.gbif.org/dataset/de22e531-395a-468b-8830-bd1a8ad04673
Citation: Sabaj Perez M (2024). Academy of Natural Sciences Ichthyology Collection. Version 1.19. Academy of Natural Sciences. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/v6umy8 accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-04-29.
GBIF url: https://www.gbif.org/dataset/de22e531-395a-468b-8830-bd1a8ad04673
Citation: Sabaj Perez M (2024). Academy of Natural Sciences Ichthyology Collection. Version 1.19. Academy of Natural Sciences. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/v6umy8 accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-04-29.
資料集編號
de22e531-395a-468b-8830-bd1a8ad04673 (DatasetUUID)
其他標題
資料集作者
Mark Sabaj Perez
資料集發佈者
Academy of Natural Sciences
來源
GBIF
資料集標籤
授權
創用CC-姓名標示-非商業性
詮釋資料更新日期
2024-04-29
觀測資料最新匯入日期
類群
魚類
紀錄筆數
129
下載次數
64