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

Specimen Records: 292,042
Media Records: 71,550
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2024-10-16

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
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  i247512
84.752
rev_geocode_eez  i175051
59.94
dwc_datasetid_added  i167085
57.213
dwc_kingdom_added  i167085
57.213
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i167085
57.213
dwc_phylum_added  i167085
57.213
dwc_taxonid_added  i167085
57.213
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i167085
57.213
dwc_taxonrank_added  i167085
57.213
gbif_canonicalname_added  i167085
57.213
gbif_genericname_added  i167085
57.213
gbif_taxon_corrected  i167085
57.213
dwc_specificepithet_added  i120804
41.365
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i118369
40.531
gbif_reference_added  i112471
38.512
dwc_continent_added  i111408
38.148
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i106873
36.595
dwc_multimedia_added  i89644
30.696
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i64941
22.237
taxon_match_failed  i61814
21.166
rev_geocode_failure  i43463
14.882
gbif_vernacularname_added  i40253
13.783
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i24043
8.233
dwc_order_added  i21539
7.375
rev_geocode_mismatch  i19298
6.608
geopoint_low_precision  i16591
5.681
dwc_order_replaced  i14531
4.976
dwc_family_replaced  i13083
4.48
dwc_continent_replaced  i6902
2.363
dwc_genus_replaced  i2466
0.844
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i1259
0.431
dwc_class_replaced  i1116
0.382
datecollected_bounds  i267
0.091
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i248
0.085
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i188
0.064
dwc_class_added  i166
0.057
dwc_country_replaced  i166
0.057
dwc_family_added  i81
0.028
rev_geocode_corrected  i9
0.003
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i6
0.002
dwc_genus_added  i5
0.002
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i5
0.002
rev_geocode_flip  i4
0.001
geopoint_bounds  i1
0