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
  • Aphanotriccus (4)
  • Atalotriccus (1)
  • Attila (8)
  • Camptostoma (2)
  • Capsiempis (2)
  • Cnipodectes (1)
  • Colonia (6)
  • Contopus (50)
  • Elaenia (17)
  • Empidonax (117)
  • Legatus (16)
  • Leptopogon (5)
  • Lophotriccus (4)
  • Megarynchus (1)
  • Mionectes (43)
  • Mitrephanes (2)
  • Myiarchus (73)
  • Myiobius (22)
  • Myiodynastes (22)
  • Myiopagis (6)
  • Myiornis (4)
  • Myiozetetes (20)
  • Oncostoma (62)
  • Onychorhynchus (3)
  • Ornithion (1)
  • Pachyramphus (15)
  • Phaeomyias (1)
  • Phylloscartes (7)
  • Pitangus (3)
  • Platyrinchus (55)
  • Rhynchocyclus (1)
  • Rhytipterna (2)
  • Serpophaga (3)
  • Sirystes (1)
  • Sublegatus (1)
  • Terenotriccus (6)
  • Tityra (4)
  • Todirostrum (24)
  • Tolmomyias (1)
  • Tyrannulus (21)
  • Tyrannus (124)
  • Zimmerius (2)