Canadian Museum of Nature Fish Collection

Occurrence Specimen
Latest version published by Canadian Museum of Nature on Jan 16, 2026 Canadian Museum of Nature

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Description

Our Fish Collection contains more than 754 190 specimens in 63 655 lots of fluid-preserved specimens. We have about 1740 type specimens that are mainly paratypes. We have a good representation of freshwater and marine species, predominately from North American high latitudes. The museum holds the best Canadian Arctic and lamprey collection in the world.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 63,182 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Occurrence (core)
63182
Multimedia 
1198

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Khidas K, Blades R (2026). Canadian Museum of Nature Fish Collection. Version 1.162. Canadian Museum of Nature. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.nature.ca/resource?r=cmn_fish&v=1.162

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Canadian Museum of Nature. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: dc3bfd08-0141-45ae-9603-91ac50cdc33b.  Canadian Museum of Nature publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canada Biodiversity Information Facility.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence

Contacts

Kamal Khidas
  • Curator
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Curator, Vertebrate Zoology
Canadian Museum of Nature
Ottawa
Ontario
CA
  • 1-613-364-4098
Rob Blades
  • Metadata Provider
  • Digital Collections Information Manager
Canadian Museum of Nature
Ottawa
Stéphanie Tessier
  • Point Of Contact
  • Manager, Fish Collection
Canadian Museum of Nature
Ottawa
Ontario
CA
  • 1-613-364-4087
Stéphanie Tessier
  • Point Of Contact
  • Assistant Collection Manager
Canadian Museum of Nature
Ottawa
Ontario
CA
Marie-Hélène Hubert
  • Processor
  • Collection Technician
Canadian Museum of Nature
Ottawa
Ontario
CA
Gregory Rand
  • Processor
  • Assistant Collection Manager
Canadian Museum of Nature
Ottawa
Ontario
CA

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers dc3bfd08-0141-45ae-9603-91ac50cdc33b
830b4af8-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a
https://ipt.nature.ca/resource?r=cmn_fish