VIMS Nunnally Ichthyology Collection

Specimen Records: 52,606

Media Records: 0

iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2026-02-19

The Nunnally Ichthyology Collection at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science and the College of William & Mary preserves a library of fishes from Virginia, the Chesapeake Bay, the North Atlantic, and the world beyond. The collection supports VIMS’ tripartite mission of research, education, and advisory service by engaging a broad community of basic and applied research scientists worldwide, providing the foundation for graduate education and research, and inspiring the public by sharing the biodiversity of fishes and the research that is being done to gain a better understanding of the natural world. The collection also serves the Commonwealth of Virginia as a repository for voucher specimens collected by state agencies and as a record of the fishes of Virginia. The VIMS collection currently maintains over 35,000 catalogued lots of fishes (c. 350,000 total specimens) and includes specimens from 316 families and 1,031 genera. These holdings include fluid preserved fishes stored in 70% ethanol, dried skeletons, and cleared and stained skeletons. The VIMS collection also houses a number of specimens of significant general scientific interest, including two specimens of the Coelacanth, a whole-body specimen of a juvenile Great White Shark, and unique distributional records (e.g., an Ocean Sunfish from the Chesapeake Bay). Four “themes” can be noted as unique strengths of the collection: Fishes of Chesapeake Bay and the Coast of Virginia, Deep-sea Fishes of the Western North Atlantic, Freshwater Fishes of Virginia, and Larval Fishes.

Contacts

Name	Sarah Huber
Role	Curatorial Associate
Email	skhuber@vims.edu

Name	Sarah Huber
Role	Curatorial Associate
Email	skhuber@vims.edu

Name	Ben Anhalt
Role	Research Architect
Email	anhalt@ku.edu

Name	Sarah Huber
Role	Curatorial Associate
Email	skhuber@vims.edu

Data Corrected
Data Use
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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.

Flag	Records With This Flag	(%) Percent With This Flag
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gbif_reference_added i	42848	81.451
gbif_vernacularname_added i	41267	78.445
idigbio_isocountrycode_added i	34597	65.766
dwc_multimedia_added i	31338	59.571
geopoint_datum_missing i	29508	56.092
rev_geocode_failure i	29508	56.092
dwc_originalnameusageid_added i	25954	49.337
rev_geocode_mismatch i	20233	38.461
taxon_match_failed i	3799	7.222
dwc_specificepithet_replaced i	2409	4.579
dwc_class_replaced i	1647	3.131
dwc_order_replaced i	1345	2.557
dwc_genus_replaced i	861	1.637
dwc_continent_replaced i	158	0.3
dwc_country_replaced i	127	0.241
dwc_taxonremarks_added i	90	0.171
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added i	58	0.11
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Month of	Search	Download	Seen	Records Viewed
06 / 2023	562,524,745	50,335	12,584	53
07 / 2023	524,532,327	372,085	9,236	108
08 / 2023	510,599,493	132,938	6,779	144
09 / 2023	659,512,460	88,497	12,948	353
10 / 2023	875,239,432	1,506,551	27,205	392
11 / 2023	771,827,258	229,020	12,056	489
12 / 2023	623,327,953	502	24,383	580
01 / 2024	1,023,100,938	122,463	8,046	635
02 / 2024	1,535,944,233	366,638	11,275	622
03 / 2024	1,564,879,319	6,401,302	9,695	796
04 / 2024	1,999,974,301	1,081,077	24,155	583
05 / 2024	8,284,681,674	4,798,441	13,009	751
06 / 2024	3,141,675,820	459,831	12,647	610
07 / 2024	1,813,879,744	1,394,546	18,336	802
08 / 2024	3,865,432,772	1,532,654	4,937	391
09 / 2024	3,459,746,693	90,143	5,610	189
10 / 2024	2,561,936,888	4,368,066	5,580	121
11 / 2024	3,195,760,121	365,327	5,139	155
12 / 2024	1,110,477,014	5	7,433	107
01 / 2025	2,824,749,567	550	3,069	191
02 / 2025	1,968,753,556	38,295	2,095	197
03 / 2025	1,207,733,260	898,029	5,293	368
04 / 2025	1,611,572,441	605,013	3,053	225
05 / 2025	952,848,919	65	3,818	204
06 / 2025	815,646,508	176,895	11,478	445
07 / 2025	161,190,348	42,639	1,488	26
08 / 2025	2,010,120,281	26	8,528	167
09 / 2025	1,476,453,909	2,790	11,525	356
10 / 2025	7,535,775,668	616,587	15,820	351
11 / 2025	11,017,384,817	588,060	17,724	797
12 / 2025	11,586,841,267	22,668	18,876	1,151
01 / 2026	4,071,801,743	14,449	10,410	873
02 / 2026	6,018,697,331	66,268	9,410	1,031
03 / 2026	6,405,692,417	2,779,957	15,133	1,048
04 / 2026	9,552,481,635	219,423	17,297	999
05 / 2026	12,436,950,546	910	13,886	1,270
06 / 2026	5,252,261,637	3	7,024	653

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Recordset

VIMS Nunnally Ichthyology Collection

Contacts