Field Museum of Natural History - Fish (F-F)

Established in 1894, The Field Museum's Division of Fishes now contains more than 1,750,000 specimens, 130,000 lots, 10,000 species, 4,500 tissue samples, 3,500 skeletons, 1,400 nominal types (6,550 specimens), and 450 families. Our collections have grown out of the cumulative effort of 12 past and current curators and countless professional staff, students, and associates. This emphasis on the collection and research of freshwater and marine fishes has made The Field Museum a leader in the evolutionary biology of fishes.

Contact: Caleb McMahan, Collections Manager (cmcmahan@fieldmuseum.org)

Home Page: https://www.fieldmuseum.org/science/research/area/fishes

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/

• 5,556 occurrence
• 374 (7%) georeferenced
• 4,485 (81%) with images
• 4,229 (76%) identified to species
• 18 families
• 27 genera
• 163 species
• 171 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)