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Ichthyology Collection - Royal Ontario Museum

Specimen Records: 107,792
Media Records: 0
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2020-07-25

The ROM ichthyology collection has over one million specimens of approximately 7,000 species from around the world. The collection currently holds over 93,000 catalogued lots, including 124 holotypes and 1,045 paratypes, with additional types being added regularly through both in-house and collaborative research. The ROM houses the largest and most diverse collection of Canadian freshwater fishes in existence. Of the 232 known fish species in Canada, the ROM collection presently holds 212, or over 91%, and provides a critical tool for studies on disappearing wildlife. Highlights of the fish collection include the last Atlantic Salmon specimens from Lake Ontario before their extirpation in the 1850s; a Coelacanth from the Comore Islands; the world record Lake Trout from Lake Athabasca, Alberta; the Canadian record Muskellunge from the Moon River, Ontario; and one of the world’s smallest vertebrates, Trimmatom nanus from the Indian Ocean.

Contacts

Name Bradley Millen
RoleDatabase Technician
Emailbradm@rom.on.ca
Name Bradley Millen
RoleAssistant Curator
Emailbradm@rom.on.ca
Name Mary Burridge
RoleAssistant Curator
Emailmaryb@rom.on.ca
Name Richard Winterbottom
RoleCurator - Retired
Emailrickw@rom.on.ca
Name Hernán López-Fernández
RolePast Associate Curator
Emailhernanl@rom.on.ca
Name Erling Holm
RoleAssistant Curator
Emailerlingh@rom.on.ca
  • Data Corrected
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  • Raw
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
dwc_datasetid_added  i103259
95.795
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i103259
95.795
dwc_taxonid_added  i103259
95.795
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i103259
95.795
dwc_taxonrank_added  i103259
95.795
gbif_canonicalname_added  i103259
95.795
gbif_genericname_added  i103259
95.795
gbif_taxon_corrected  i103259
95.795
dwc_class_added  i103253
95.789
dwc_order_added  i103219
95.758
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i103143
95.687
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i102252
94.86
gbif_reference_added  i102121
94.739
gbif_vernacularname_added  i97080
90.062
geopoint_datum_missing  i88780
82.362
dwc_multimedia_added  i79961
74.181
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i56926
52.811
rev_geocode_eez  i31427
29.155
geopoint_low_precision  i20457
18.978
dwc_continent_added  i16245
15.071
dwc_family_replaced  i15627
14.497
taxon_match_failed  i13867
12.865
dwc_continent_replaced  i11635
10.794
geopoint_datum_error  i8545
7.927
rev_geocode_mismatch  i3208
2.976
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i1722
1.598
rev_geocode_failure  i1229
1.14
dwc_genus_replaced  i752
0.698
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i375
0.348
rev_geocode_corrected  i314
0.291
dwc_country_replaced  i249
0.231
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i204
0.189
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i81
0.075
dwc_phylum_replaced  i45
0.042
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i39
0.036
geopoint_0_coord  i32
0.03
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i22
0.02
rev_geocode_flip  i19
0.018
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i10
0.009
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i10
0.009
geopoint_similar_coord  i8
0.007
dwc_kingdom_replaced  i6
0.006
geopoint_bounds  i5
0.005
dwc_country_added  i4
0.004
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i3
0.003
dwc_class_replaced  i2
0.002
dwc_family_added  i2
0.002
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