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:
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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
  • Amaurospiza (1)
  • Arremon (20)
  • Arremonops (32)
  • Atlapetes (11)
  • Buthraupis (3)
  • Caryothraustes (4)
  • Chlorophanes (4)
  • Chlorophonia (2)
  • Chlorospingus (40)
  • Chlorothraupis (22)
  • Cyanerpes (7)
  • Cyanocompsa (28)
  • Dacnis (8)
  • Eucometis (4)
  • Euphonia (104)
  • Habia (108)
  • Heterospingus (1)
  • Junco (5)
  • Lanio (1)
  • Lysurus (1)
  • Mitrospingus (6)
  • Oryzoborus (47)
  • Passerina (8)
  • Pezopetes (3)
  • Pheucticus (40)
  • Piranga (21)
  • Pitylus (3)
  • Pselliophorus (4)
  • Ramphocelus (78)
  • Rhodinocichla (10)
  • Saltator (110)
  • Spiza (24)
  • Sporophila (38)
  • Tachyphonus (168)
  • Tangara (33)
  • Thraupis (49)
  • Volatinia (15)
  • Zonotrichia (14)