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The crustaceans collection (IU) of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN - Paris)

Specimen Records: 101,342
Media Records: 26,601
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2023-01-25

The collection covers all groups of crustaceans (except the very rare Remipedia and Tantulocarida). Consisting of some 100 000 inventoried lots arranged in systematic order, and with about 6000 type specimens, this collection is one of the richest in the world for its diversity. The collection was established before 1800 with the collections of the explorer naturalists (voyages of Bougainville, Savigny, Dumont D'Urville ...) and then continued, notably with those of the Travailleur and the Talisman. The collection has benefited from the work of prestigious scientists like Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Latreille, H. and A. Milne-Edwards, and Chevreux. The specimens, measuring 1 mm to over 2 m in size, are mainly preserved in alcohol. Some are kept dry (old collections such as the historical collection of crabs), others as slide preparations. The collection includes worldwide material of marine, freshwater and terrestrial crustaceans (including pest species). The collection grows 1 to 1.5% per year on average, varying according to the group, thanks to numerous donations and deposits. For 25 years the "Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos" (formely MUSORSTOM) expeditions have resulted in the largest collection in the world from the deep-water (bathyal) environment.

Contacts

Name MNHN
RoleProvider
Emailnone
Name Simon Chagnoux
Rolenone
Emailgbifprovider@mnhn.fr
Name Danièle Defaye
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Paula Martin-Lefèvre
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Laure Corbari
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Anouchka Sato
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Julien Brisset
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Régis Cleva
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Paula Martin-Lefèvre
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
geopoint_datum_missing  i80166
79.104
rev_geocode_eez  i73800
72.823
dwc_datasetid_added  i48855
48.208
dwc_kingdom_added  i48855
48.208
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i48855
48.208
dwc_phylum_added  i48855
48.208
dwc_taxonid_added  i48855
48.208
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i48855
48.208
dwc_taxonrank_added  i48855
48.208
gbif_canonicalname_added  i48855
48.208
gbif_genericname_added  i48855
48.208
gbif_taxon_corrected  i48855
48.208
dwc_specificepithet_added  i47168
46.543
gbif_reference_added  i35513
35.043
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i32825
32.39
dwc_continent_added  i28864
28.482
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i13453
13.275
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i13105
12.931
taxon_match_failed  i12190
12.029
gbif_vernacularname_added  i9108
8.987
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i5008
4.942
geopoint_low_precision  i4638
4.577
dwc_family_replaced  i4372
4.314
dwc_multimedia_added  i3986
3.933
dwc_continent_replaced  i3832
3.781
dwc_genus_replaced  i1884
1.859
rev_geocode_failure  i1061
1.047
dwc_order_replaced  i833
0.822
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i416
0.41
dwc_family_added  i363
0.358
dwc_order_added  i232
0.229
datecollected_bounds  i137
0.135
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i136
0.134
dwc_country_replaced  i43
0.042
rev_geocode_mismatch  i42
0.041
dwc_class_added  i16
0.016
rev_geocode_corrected  i8
0.008
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i8
0.008
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i8
0.008
dwc_class_replaced  i4
0.004
geopoint_pre_flip  i1
0.001
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