This site includes a page with links to Museums and Collections
world-wide: www.biology.ualberta.ca/jackson.hp/iwr/iwr.html
(click on museums)
Albany Museum - (Freshwater Ichthyology): www.ru.ac.za/departments/am/
American Museum of Natural History: www.amnh.org/
(no link to Department of Herpetology & Ichthyology, however link to
Center for Biodiversity Conservation available at http://research.amnh.org/biodiversity)
Aquatic animals mailing lists maintained by individuals from various
institutions www.actwin.com/fish/lists.html
Australian Museum – Ichthyology: www.austmus.gov.au/fish/
(click on Type
database to access the type specimen
collections; click on Species
index to access the list of
Australian species)
BBCWS - Biodiversity and Biological Collections Web Server: www.keil.ukans.edu
Bernice P. Bishop Museum - Ichthyology Department: www.bishop.hawaii.org/bishop/fish/fish.html (click
on Data)
Burke Museum, University of Washington, Seattle; Vertebrate Paleontology
Section: http://depts.washington.edu/vertp/
(click on Catalog
of vertebrate fossils then on Osteichthyes)
California Academy of Sciences - Ichthyology Department: http://web.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/
Canadian Museum of Nature - Research and Collections - Recherche et
collections: http://nature.ca/collections/collections_e.cfm or
http://nature.ca/collections/collections_f.cfm (click
on Vertebrates then on Fish; note that the collection is not available as an online database)
Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh: www.clpgh.org/cmnh/
(note that the vertebrate fossil
database (which includes fishes) is still under construction; click on Research,
then on Vertebrate Paleontology)
Coleccion Nacional de Peces (Mexico): www.ibiologia.unam.mx/cnp/acervo.html
(note that the checklists of
freshwater species occurring in Mexico and type specimens are read-only, i.e.,
htm format, only the bibliographic database is searchable)
FishGopher - The FishGopher Project: www.as.ua.edu/biology/uaic/fishgopher.html
Florida Museum of Natural History - Ichthyology Page, Collection: http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Collection/collectdata.htm
Grice Marine Laboratory, University of Charleston, SC: www.cofc.edu/~grice/
(note that the fish collection is
not searchable online; click on Fish
and invertebrate collection link)
Humboldt State University Fish Collection: http://sorrel.humboldt.edu/~raf1/fish.htm
Illinois Natural History Survey - Fish Collection: www.inhs.uiuc.edu/cbd/collections/fish.html
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia - Neodat page: http://curupira.inpa.gov.br/colecoes/bdados/neodat/Index.htm
James Ford Bell Museum of Natural History - Fish Collection: www.gen.umn.edu/faculty_staff/hatch/fishes/index.html
(database still under construction)
J. L. B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology: www.ru.ac.za/affiliates/jlb/
(note that the FISHNET and FISHLIT
databases are not searchable online)
Massachusetts Museum of Natural History - Fish collection: http://snapper.bio.umass.edu/vmmnh/fishcoll.html
Milwaukee Public Museum - Vertebrate Zoology Section: www.mpm.edu/collect/vert.html
(note that a searchable fish
collection is not available, however, several interesting articles on fish
collecting are available; click on the Fish menu link)
Museu de Ciências e Tecnologia PUCRS - Laboratório de Ictiologia: http://ultra.pucrs.br/museu/ictio/
(click on Fish
collection)
Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - Setor de
Ictiologia: http://acd.ufrj.br/museu/home.html
(click on Vertebrados then on Ictiologia)
Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la Ville de Genève - Catalogue des
types: http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/mhng/erpi/cat2.html
Muséum National D'Histoire Naturelle, Paris – Search: www.mnhn.fr/base/gicim.html
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University - Fish Page: www.mcz.harvard.edu/fish/
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution - Division
of Fishes www.nmnh.si.edu/vert/fish.html
Natural History Museum (London) – collections: www.nhm.ac.uk/info/collections.html
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: http://www.nhm.org/sitemap/
(click on Ichthyology; note that collection database still not available)
Naturhistorisches Museum der Burgergemeinde Bern - (Vertebrate animals -
collections): http://nmbe0.unibe.ch/abtwt/abtwt_coll.html
(under E.A. Göldi collection, click on Gopher, then on Search Pisces
collections; note that this is a downloaded file and may take more than 5
minutes)
Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet (Swedish Museum of Natural History) –
Collections, Ichthyology Section, Department of Vertebrate Zoology: www.nrm.se/ve/pisces/collpage.shtml.en
Nova Scotia Museum http://nature.museum.gov.ns.ca/index.htm
(click Backstage, then Collections,
note that data computerization is incomplete and the collection is not yet
searchable)
NEODAT - Neotropical Biodiversity Database: www.keil.ukans.edu/~neodat/
Oklahoma Museum of Natural History - Collections and Research: www.snomnh.ou.edu/collections/index.shtml
(Division of Ichthyology is not on line)
Ohio State University’s Museum of Biological Diversity: http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~herb/museum/musehome.htm
(internal link to Museum of Zoology currently not available)
Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences: www.acnatsci.org/biodiv/ (click on Ichthyology
then on Collections database; note)
Provincial Museum of Alberta - Ichthyology Program – Holdings: www.pma.edmonton.ab.ca/natural/fishes/collects/collects.htm
Royal British Columbia Museum - Ichthyology and Herpetology Collection: http://rbcm1.rbcm.gov.bc.ca/research-collectionsdept/nat-hist/section/herpcol.html
Royal Ontario Museum - Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Biology:
www.rom.on.ca/biodiversity/cbcb/
(note that their Collections link leads to their Herbaria database; an interesting piece of news
release on their fish-associated research is available through the Tropical
Biodiversity and Gobies, gobies and more gobies links)
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History: http://www.sbnature.org/htmls/vertzoo.htm
(note that their collection itself
is not searchable online, however, a useful link is available for species
occurring in the county of Santa Barbara; go to the Checklist section and click
on Listed species of Santa Barbara
County)
Scripps Institute of Oceanography - Marine Vertebrates Search: http://www-sioadm.ucsd.edu/siofish/
Staatliches Museum fur Naturkunde, Stuttgart, Germany: http://ourworld.compuserve.com:80/homepages/naturkundemuseum/home-e.htm
Texas Natural History Collection (Austin) - Ichthyology Division: www.utexas.edu/depts/tnhc/.www/fish/
The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois - Fish
collection: www.fmnh.org/research_collections/zoology/divisions_fishes.htm
Tulane University Museum of Natural History – Fishes: www.museum.tulane.edu/museum/fishes.html
University of Alabama Ichthyological Collections: www.as.ua.edu/biology/uaic/index.html
(click on Fish
gopher to search collection)
University of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks - Aquatics collection: http://zorba.uafadm.alaska.edu/museum/aqua/index.html
(note that the aquatics collection
itself is not available online)
University of Alberta Laboratory for Vertebrate Paleontology: http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/wilson.hp/UALVP.html
(click on UALVP Collections then on type
specimens in UALVP collections to
access the list of 70 specimens available in their collection)
University of Alberta Museum of Zoology – Collections: www.biology.ualberta.ca/uamz.hp/collections.html
(click on the Ichthyology
link; note however, that the collection itself is not available for searching
online)
University of Arizona Zoological Collections - Fish Collection: http://eebweb.arizona.edu/collections/fishcoll.htm
(note that the collection is not
available for online search)
University of Arkansas Museum, Fayetteville: www.uark.edu/campus-resources/museinfo/public_html/
(click on Collections;
note, however, that the collection is not available for online search)
University of California Museum of Paleontology - Vertebrate Collection:
www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/collections/vertebrate.html
University of Georgia Museum of Natural History: http://museum.nhm.uga.edu/mnhrep.html
(note that the Ichthyology collection is not available online).
University of Kansas Natural History Museum - Division of Ichthyology: www.nhm.ukans.edu/~fishes/
(click on Collections)
University of Michigan Museum of Zoology - Division of Fishes: http://www.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/
(click on Fishes and note related web
resources at bottom of page)
University of Nebraska State Museum - Division of Zoology www.museum.unl.edu/research/zoology/zoology.html
(click on Search
databases then on Search fish database)
University of Washington Fish Collection http://artedi.fish.washington.edu/
Virginia Institute of Marine Science - Ichthyology Collection www.vims.edu/ich_coll.html
Western Australia Museum - Aquatic Zoology www.museum.wa.gov.au/nat_sci/aq_zool/aq_zool.htm
(note that the fish collection is
not available online)
Yale University Peabody Museum of Natural History - Ichthyology
Collection www.peabody.yale.edu/collections/ich/
Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen - Ichthyological Section http://www.zmuc.dk/VerWeb/Ichthylo.htm
(note that the type collection
database is still under construction)
Zoologisches Museum, Universität Hamburg - Ichthyological Collection www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/ichthyo/welcome.htm