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VIMS Nunnally Ichthyology Collection

Specimen Records: 42,413
Media Records: 0
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2023-01-25

The Nunnally Ichthyology Collection at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science and the College of William & Mary preserves a library of fishes from Virginia, the Chesapeake Bay, the North Atlantic, and the world beyond. The collection supports VIMS’ tripartite mission of research, education, and advisory service by engaging a broad community of basic and applied research scientists worldwide, providing the foundation for graduate education and research, and inspiring the public by sharing the biodiversity of fishes and the research that is being done to gain a better understanding of the natural world. The collection also serves the Commonwealth of Virginia as a repository for voucher specimens collected by state agencies and as a record of the fishes of Virginia. The VIMS collection currently maintains over 35,000 catalogued lots of fishes (c. 350,000 total specimens) and includes specimens from 316 families and 1,031 genera. These holdings include fluid preserved fishes stored in 70% ethanol, dried skeletons, and cleared and stained skeletons. The VIMS collection also houses a number of specimens of significant general scientific interest, including two specimens of the Coelacanth, a whole-body specimen of a juvenile Great White Shark, and unique distributional records (e.g., an Ocean Sunfish from the Chesapeake Bay). Four “themes” can be noted as unique strengths of the collection: Fishes of Chesapeake Bay and the Coast of Virginia, Deep-sea Fishes of the Western North Atlantic, Freshwater Fishes of Virginia, and Larval Fishes.

Contacts

Name Sarah Huber
RoleCuratorial Associate
Emailskhuber@vims.edu
Name Sarah Huber
Role Curatorial Associate
Email skhuber@vims.edu
Name Ben Anhalt
RoleResearch Architect
Emailanhalt@ku.edu
Name Sarah Huber
RoleCuratorial Associate
Emailskhuber@vims.edu
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This table shows any data corrections that were performed on this recordset to improve the capabilities of iDigBio Search. The first column represents the correction performed. The last two columns represent the number and percentage of records that were corrected. A complete list of the data quality flags and their descriptions can be found here. Clicking on a data flag name will take you to a search for all records with this flag in this recordset.
FlagRecords With This Flag(%) Percent With This Flag
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86.563
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86.563
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86.563
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86.563
dwc_taxonrank_added  i36714
86.563
gbif_canonicalname_added  i36714
86.563
gbif_genericname_added  i36714
86.563
gbif_taxon_corrected  i36714
86.563
dwc_family_replaced  i36679
86.481
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86.466
gbif_reference_added  i36373
85.759
gbif_vernacularname_added  i35114
82.791
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i27835
65.628
dwc_multimedia_added  i26416
62.283
geopoint_datum_missing  i23087
54.434
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i21567
50.85
rev_geocode_eez  i11170
26.336
taxon_match_failed  i3553
8.377
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i1861
4.388
dwc_class_replaced  i1225
2.888
dwc_order_replaced  i1060
2.499
rev_geocode_failure  i1018
2.4
dwc_genus_replaced  i856
2.018
rev_geocode_mismatch  i251
0.592
dwc_continent_replaced  i142
0.335
dwc_country_replaced  i110
0.259
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i86
0.203
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i58
0.137
rev_geocode_corrected  i18
0.042
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i14
0.033
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i14
0.033
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i2
0.005
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i1
0.002
dwc_specificepithet_added  i1
0.002
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i1
0.002
rev_geocode_flip  i1
0.002
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i1
0.002
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