Published on 01 January 2022

Field Museum of Natural History (Zoology) Fish Collection

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Grant, Sharon;Webbink, Kate

Description

Established in 1894, The Field Museum fish collection now contains more than 1,700,000 specimens, 130,000 lots, 10,000 species, 4,500 tissuesamples, 3,500 skeletons, 1,400 nominal types, and 450 families. Specimens range from the lobe-finned Coelacanth and lungfishes, to a diversity of freshwater catfishes and cichlids, to charismatic reef fishes such as the amazing Slingjaw Wrasse and venomous Red Lionfish.

Citations (2738)

Mentions (2)

Metrics

Dataset Index

946.5

FAIR Score

13%

Citations

2,738

Mentions

2

Metrics Over Time

Publication Details

Publisher

Field Museum

Assigned Domain

Topic Name

Environmental and Biological Research in Conflict Zones

Subfield

Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

Field

Environmental Science

Domain

Physical Sciences

Keywords

OccurrenceSpecimen

Normalization Factors

FT

13.46

CTw

1.00

MTw

1.00