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Illinois Natural History Survey - Fish Collection

Specimen Records: 169,844
Media Records: 22,907
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2023-01-11

A large part of the Illinois Natural History Fish Collection comes from specimens collected from 1880 to 1905 for S.A. Forbes and R.E. Richardson's "The Fishes of Illinois" published in 1908 and from specimens collected from 1950 to 1978 for P.W. Smith's "The Fishes of Illinois" published in 1979. Thousands of specimens have been added from other areas of North and South America in the past few decades. The collection contains representatives from 48 of the 50 states and many countries including: Angola, Antigua, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, England, Guyana, Indonesia, Lebanon, Mexico, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Romania, Russia, Thailand, Trinidad Venezuela, and Yugoslavia. The geographic scope of the collection is about 58% from Illinois, 28% from elsewhere in North America, 13% from South America, and 1% from the rest of the world, including Antarctica.

Contacts

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Emailcms@inhs.illinois.edu
Namenone
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Emailcms@inhs.illinois.edu
Name Chris Taylor
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Emailctaylor@inhs.illinois.edu
Name Rachel
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Name Chris Taylor
RoleCollection Manager
Emailctaylor@inhs.illinois.edu
  • Data Corrected
  • Data Use
  • 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
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99.736
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99.709
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94.602
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94.602
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94.602
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94.602
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94.602
gbif_taxon_corrected  i160676
94.602
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94.549
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94.254
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92.894
gbif_vernacularname_added  i157689
92.843
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89.336
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80.778
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77.586
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57.023
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54.353
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16.543
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16.543
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16.542
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16.528
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13.214
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12.874
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5.267
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5.266
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4.826
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2.614
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2.396
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1.708
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0.412
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0.336
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0.151
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0.096
rev_geocode_failure  i83
0.049
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i51
0.03
dwc_country_replaced  i47
0.028
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i19
0.011
dwc_taxonrank_invalid  i10
0.006
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0.006
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i6
0.004
datecollected_bounds  i3
0.002
dwc_order_replaced  i2
0.001
geopoint_similar_coord  i2
0.001
dwc_phylum_replaced  i1
0.001
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