National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution - Vertebrates (NMNH-Vertebrates)

Contacts: Thomas Orrell, orrellt@si.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 22 October 2021
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Parsed IPT import workflow
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 70,209 specimen records
  • 8,755 (12%) georeferenced
  • 26,970 (38%) with images (29,125 total images)
  • 1,287 GenBank genetic references
  • 38,644 (55%) identified to species
  • 350 families
  • 1,240 genera
  • 2,530 species
  • 2,558 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
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Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Dormitator (58)
  • Eleotris (83)
  • Erotelis (8)
  • Euleptoeleotris (7)
  • Gobiomorus (153)
  • Guavina (8)
  • Hemieleotris (21)
  • Leptophilypnus (23)
  • Microeleotris (5)