Dataset

Canadian Museum of Nature Fish Collection

OBIS Canada Open in mapper Explore occurrences

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.

Citation
Khidas K, Blades R (2026). Canadian Museum of Nature Fish Collection. Version 1.166. Canadian Museum of Nature. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.nature.ca/resource?r=cmn_fish&v=1.166
Published
May 05, 2026 at 13:10
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License
URL
http://ipt.nature.ca/resource?r=cmn_fish
Archive
https://ipt.nature.ca/archive.do?r=cmn_fish

Contacts

Kamal Khidas
Canadian Museum of Nature

Stéphanie Tessier
Canadian Museum of Nature

Rob Blades
Canadian Museum of Nature

Marie-Hélène Hubert
Canadian Museum of Nature

Gregory Rand
Canadian Museum of Nature

63,230
total submitted occurrences
41,539
accepted occurrences
3,215
taxa
2,899
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 63,230
100.0%
decimalLatitude 3,385
5.4%
decimalLongitude 3,397 3
5.4%
eventDate 1,839 14
2.9%
maximumDepthInMeters 63,230
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 63,230
100.0%
occurrenceStatus 63,230
100.0%
scientificName 183
0.3%
scientificNameID 63,230
100.0%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 63,230
100.0%
ON_LAND 37,313
59.0%
NOT_MARINE 18,188
28.8%
NO_COORD 3,402
5.4%
NO_MATCH 1,136
1.8%
LON_OUT_OF_RANGE 3
0.0%
MARINE_UNSURE 1
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data