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
  • Akko (3)
  • Awaous (81)
  • Bathygobius (19)
  • Bollmannia (37)
  • Coryphopterus (14)
  • Ctenogobius (31)
  • Elacatinus (2)
  • Enypnias (16)
  • Euctenogobius (6)
  • Evorthodus (14)
  • Garmannia (9)
  • Gerhardinus (4)
  • Gobioides (7)
  • Gobionellus (44)
  • Gobiosoma (40)
  • Gobius (1)
  • Gobulus (2)
  • Gymneleotris (2)
  • Lophogobius (14)
  • Microgobius (36)
  • Parrella (4)
  • Sicydium (35)