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University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Division of Fishes

Specimen Records: 207,426
Media Records: 0
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2026-02-19

The collections of the Fish Division comprise 193,555 cataloged lots, with over 3.4 million total specimens. 406 fish families, 2,901 genera and approximately 8,000 nominal species are represented in the collections. In addition to formalin-fixed, alcohol-preserved specimens, the collections contain 10,176 dry skeletons and 10,458 cleared and stained glycerin preparations. Type material representing more than 1,500 nominal species includes 626 primary type specimens and 4,385 lots of paratypes. Geographic strengths of the collections include North American fresh and marine waters, Southeast Asia, South America, and Mexico, but all major aquatic habitats are represented. Digital images of field notes (> 5,000 records) and fish specimens (> 6,000 images), as well as catalog records and other collection documents, are available to researchers upon request.

Contacts

Name UMMZ Fish Division Data Group
Rolenone
Emailummz-fish-data@umich.edu
Name Admins LSA IT
RoleLSA IT Admins
Emaillsa-it-infra-ipt-admins@umich.edu
Name Admins LSA IT
Rolenone
Emaillsa-it-infra-ipt-admins@umich.edu
Name UMMZ Fish Division Data Group
RoleGroup
Emailummz-fish-data@umich.edu
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
dwc_datasetid_added  i200975
96.89
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i200975
96.89
dwc_taxonid_added  i200975
96.89
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i200975
96.89
gbif_canonicalname_added  i200975
96.89
gbif_genericname_added  i200975
96.89
gbif_taxon_corrected  i200975
96.89
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i200783
96.797
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i200654
96.735
gbif_reference_added  i198565
95.728
gbif_vernacularname_added  i194411
93.725
geopoint_datum_missing  i180698
87.114
rev_geocode_failure  i180698
87.114
rev_geocode_mismatch  i176167
84.93
dwc_multimedia_added  i160518
77.386
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i125951
60.721
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i118986
57.363
taxon_match_failed  i22965
11.071
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i11277
5.437
dwc_genus_replaced  i8759
4.223
dwc_order_replaced  i7550
3.64
dwc_family_replaced  i5692
2.744
dwc_country_replaced  i2385
1.15
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i752
0.363
dwc_continent_replaced  i472
0.228
dwc_phylum_replaced  i436
0.21
dwc_class_replaced  i409
0.197
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i273
0.132
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i180
0.087
dwc_genus_added  i40
0.019
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i35
0.017
geopoint_0_coord  i13
0.006
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i1
0
dwc_order_added  i1
0
dwc_specificepithet_added  i1
0
geopoint_similar_coord  i1
0