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.)
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Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Amazilia (215)
  • Androdon (6)
  • Anthracothorax (25)
  • Archilochus (1)
  • Calliphlox (11)
  • Campylopterus (1)
  • Chalybura (1)
  • Chlorostilbon (101)
  • Colibri (7)
  • Damophila (3)
  • Discosura (9)
  • Doryfera (3)
  • Elvira (24)
  • Eugenes (1)
  • Eupherusa (2)
  • Eutoxeres (4)
  • Florisuga (12)
  • Glaucis (38)
  • Goethalsia (4)
  • Goldmania (33)
  • Haplophaedia (2)
  • Heliodoxa (4)
  • Heliomaster (2)
  • Heliothryx (22)
  • Hylocharis (2)
  • Lampornis (9)
  • Lepidopyga (5)
  • Lophornis (1)
  • Panterpe (10)
  • Phaethornis (43)
  • Selasphorus (35)
  • Thalurania (95)
  • Threnetes (81)