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The echinoderm collection (IE) of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN - Paris)

Specimen Records: 66,990
Media Records: 6,776
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-06-23

The aim is to provide a general view of the echinoderm collection of the Paris Museum, which is primarily a scientific collection. The naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, one of the founders of the Theory of Evolution, was the first to really establish the collection of echinoderms at the Paris Museum. There are both dry and alcohol-preserved lots. Some sea cucumber specimens are preserved as microscopic preparations on slides. The number of lots is estimated at 500,000, of which 0.4% are types. Echinoderms have been collected in all oceans, at all latitudes. The largest numbers of specimens were collected relatively recently in the Indo-West Pacific. Echinoderms live exclusively in marine waters and at all depths. For 25 years intensive research programs have permitted huge collections to be obtained, especially from the Indo-Pacific and Antarctic regions. Most of the data entered so far are from these regions.

Contacts

Name MNHN
RoleProvider
Emailnone
Name Simon Chagnoux
Rolenone
Emailgbifprovider@mnhn.fr
Name Nadia Ameziane
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Sébastien Soubzmaigne
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Marc Éleaume
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Tim O'Hara
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Pierre Lozouet
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Nadia Ameziane
RoleCorrespondant
Emailnone
  • Data Corrected
  • Data Use
  • Raw
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  i42134
62.896
dwc_kingdom_added  i42134
62.896
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i42134
62.896
dwc_phylum_added  i42134
62.896
dwc_taxonid_added  i42134
62.896
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i42134
62.896
dwc_taxonrank_added  i42134
62.896
gbif_canonicalname_added  i42134
62.896
gbif_genericname_added  i42134
62.896
gbif_taxon_corrected  i42134
62.896
geopoint_datum_missing  i38886
58.047
gbif_reference_added  i37318
55.707
rev_geocode_eez  i35967
53.69
dwc_specificepithet_added  i33820
50.485
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i22298
33.286
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i13677
20.416
dwc_multimedia_added  i12775
19.07
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i9945
14.845
gbif_vernacularname_added  i6871
10.257
dwc_order_replaced  i6388
9.536
dwc_continent_added  i6226
9.294
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i5254
7.843
geopoint_low_precision  i4752
7.094
dwc_continent_replaced  i3719
5.552
dwc_order_added  i2931
4.375
dwc_family_replaced  i2487
3.712
rev_geocode_failure  i1747
2.608
taxon_match_failed  i1661
2.479
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i572
0.854
dwc_genus_replaced  i330
0.493
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i313
0.467
dwc_family_added  i241
0.36
dwc_country_replaced  i172
0.257
rev_geocode_mismatch  i36
0.054
dwc_class_replaced  i9
0.013
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i4
0.006
rev_geocode_corrected  i3
0.004
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i2
0.003
geopoint_similar_coord  i1
0.001
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i1
0.001
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i1
0.001
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