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The reptiles and amphibians collection (RA) of the Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN - Paris)

Specimen Records: 204,363
Media Records: 14,913
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-07-24

The collection of Reptiles and Amphibians of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle started in the early 19th century and has handwritten catalogues that date from 1864. The records in the Reptile and Amphiphibian database were transcribed from these catalogues. Most entries have not yet been checked for errors or verified against the collections. Thus there is a great heterogeneity in taxonomy and in geographical information. Beside the individual labelling system, the collection uses numbers to store specimens according to their specific name. This allows attaching to this number various historical names and the valid one. Locality names are written usually in French transliteration. Our curators and collection managers can help users concerning these issues. Search results will give only part of the information available on the database. They help the researchers to learn about the holdings of the collection and the gross geographical origin. More detailed information can be obtained by writing to the curators. The results should not be used as primary data without check back to the specimens. The issue of the database is to prepare loan requests or visits to the collection. For any request contact: http://colhelper.mnhn.fr/

Contacts

Name MNHN
RoleProvider
Emailnone
Name Simon Chagnoux
Rolenone
Emailgbifprovider@mnhn.fr
Name Roge Bour
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Alain Dubois
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Ivan Ineich
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Annemarie Ohler
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Laure Pierre
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Jérôme Courtois
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Laure Pierre
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  i146003
71.443
dwc_kingdom_added  i146003
71.443
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i146003
71.443
dwc_phylum_added  i146003
71.443
dwc_taxonid_added  i146003
71.443
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i146003
71.443
dwc_taxonrank_added  i146003
71.443
gbif_canonicalname_added  i146003
71.443
gbif_genericname_added  i146003
71.443
gbif_taxon_corrected  i146003
71.443
dwc_specificepithet_added  i121048
59.232
gbif_vernacularname_added  i120742
59.082
gbif_reference_added  i116807
57.157
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i73733
36.079
dwc_multimedia_added  i68810
33.67
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i55969
27.387
taxon_match_failed  i45463
22.246
dwc_continent_replaced  i44695
21.87
dwc_family_added  i38335
18.758
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i34304
16.786
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i20370
9.968
dwc_continent_added  i19767
9.672
dwc_country_replaced  i13671
6.69
dwc_family_replaced  i6667
3.262
dwc_order_replaced  i4816
2.357
dwc_order_added  i4813
2.355
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i4012
1.963
geopoint_datum_missing  i3694
1.808
dwc_class_added  i2792
1.366
dwc_genus_replaced  i1682
0.823
geopoint_low_precision  i1078
0.527
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i376
0.184
dwc_class_replaced  i179
0.088
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i165
0.081
datecollected_bounds  i110
0.054
rev_geocode_eez  i56
0.027
rev_geocode_failure  i15
0.007
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i6
0.003
rev_geocode_mismatch  i5
0.002
geopoint_pre_flip  i3
0.001
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