Academy of Natural Sciences Ichthyology Collection

Mark Sabaj Perez1, BDIM Account2

1 Academy of Natural Sciences, ; 2 

Corresponding author(s): Mark Sabaj Perez (mhs58@drexel.edu)

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Resource Citation

Sabaj Perez M (2024). Academy of Natural Sciences Ichthyology Collection. Version 1.8. Academy of Natural Sciences. Occurrence dataset. http://ans-collectweb.ansp.org:8080/ipt-2.7.7/resource?r=ansp_ichthyology_collection&v=1.8

Abstract

Established in 1812, The Academy of Natural Sciences hosts one of the most important collections of preserved fishes in the world with an estimated 1.6 million specimens in 155,000 lots representing more than 15,000 species. The collection is particularly rich in catfishes (Order Siluriformes), minnows (Cypriniformes) and eels (Anguilliformes). Geographically, its strengths include freshwater species of North and South America and marine species of the North Atlantic and Indian Oceans. ANSP also has one of the world’s largest collections of fish types with 2,797 primary and 17,881 secondary type specimens representing 1,857 and 2,048 species/subspecies, respectively. In total, ANSP types represent ~3,086 species/subspecies and ~8.4% of all fish species ever named as such (as of Jan 2024). Specimens aside, staff have assembled and curate ~18,000 frozen tissue samples of thousands of fish species primarily from the U.S. and South America.

Keywords: Occurrence

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.gbif.org/resource?r=test-character-encoding-issue

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: N/A
Taxonomic ranks
Kingdom: Animalia
Family: Triakidae, Echeneididae, Cottidae, Lepidosirenidae, Monodactylidae, Lophiidae, Percidae, Dasyatidae, Percopsidae, Rajidae, Ictaluridae, Malacanthidae, Gasterosteidae, Esocidae, Catostomidae, Myxinidae, Myliobatidae, Branchiostomidae, Petromyzontidae, Centrarchidae, Salmonidae, Tetraodontidae, Cyprinodontidae, Balistidae, Cyprinidae, Clupeidae, Achiridae

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: The Geographic coverage is meant to be global as this collection consists of fish in both fresh and salt water
Coordinates: 78°10'1.2''S and 78°18'50.4''N Latitude; 179°53'6''W and 179°53'2.4''E Longitude 

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Academy of Natural Sciences Ichthyology Collection
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.gbif.org/archive.do?r=test-character-encoding-issue
Publication date of data: 2024-02-16
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2024-02-14
Hierarchy level: Dataset