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The molluscs collection (IM) of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN - Paris)

Specimen Records: 277,221
Media Records: 60,909
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2023-01-25

The collection of marine, terrestrial and freshwater molluscs is primarily a scientific but also a historical and museological collection. It includes about 800 000 lots, totaling approximately 5 million specimens from around the world. These specimens are preserved as either dry collection (dried animals, shells) or in alcohol. The type collection contains 11 000 types of nominal species. The collection dates back to Michel Adanson (shells of Senegal, 1757) and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. It then increased through donations of amateur collectors, institutional legacies and purchases, and the activity of scientists from both the Museum and other institutions. This diversity of sources continues today, but large expeditions have been very important from the late eighteenth century through to the colonial era, a role they continue to play to this day. The "Tropical Deep-Sea benthos" oceanographic expeditions (formerly MUSORSTOM), launched in the early 1980s to sample the benthos of the tropical South and West-Pacific, have resulted in the collection becoming the best in the world for deep-sea faunas (100-1.500 m bathymetric zone). It is particularly rich in micromolluscs. Historical sections of the collection contain representatives of terrestrial and freshwater molluscs that are now extinct.

Contacts

Name MNHN
RoleProvider
Emailnone
Name Simon Chagnoux
Rolenone
Emailgbifprovider@mnhn.fr
Name Philippe Bouchet
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Barbara Buge
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Jérôme Mainguy
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Virginie Héros
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Pierre Lozouet
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Philippe Maestrati
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Gilberto Marani
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Pierre Lozouet
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  i236607
85.35
rev_geocode_eez  i197640
71.293
dwc_datasetid_added  i159651
57.59
dwc_kingdom_added  i159651
57.59
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i159651
57.59
dwc_phylum_added  i159651
57.59
dwc_taxonid_added  i159651
57.59
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i159651
57.59
dwc_taxonrank_added  i159651
57.59
gbif_canonicalname_added  i159651
57.59
gbif_genericname_added  i159651
57.59
gbif_taxon_corrected  i159651
57.59
dwc_specificepithet_added  i116963
42.191
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i114370
41.256
gbif_reference_added  i107853
38.905
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i101978
36.786
dwc_continent_added  i95371
34.403
dwc_multimedia_added  i83970
30.29
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i63661
22.964
taxon_match_failed  i60470
21.813
gbif_vernacularname_added  i37379
13.483
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i22848
8.242
dwc_order_added  i20424
7.367
geopoint_low_precision  i15426
5.565
dwc_order_replaced  i13929
5.025
dwc_family_replaced  i12612
4.549
dwc_continent_replaced  i9576
3.454
dwc_genus_replaced  i2451
0.884
rev_geocode_failure  i2241
0.808
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i1214
0.438
dwc_class_replaced  i1097
0.396
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i247
0.089
rev_geocode_mismatch  i226
0.082
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i188
0.068
dwc_class_added  i187
0.067
datecollected_bounds  i162
0.058
dwc_country_replaced  i138
0.05
dwc_family_added  i66
0.024
rev_geocode_corrected  i25
0.009
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i14
0.005
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i7
0.003
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i7
0.003
dwc_genus_added  i5
0.002
rev_geocode_flip  i4
0.001
geopoint_bounds  i1
0
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