National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (NMNH-Invertebrates)
Public records of accessioned specimens and observations curated by the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. These data are from the Departments of Entomology and Invertebrate Zoology.
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 20 October 2021
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
Collection Statistics
- 1,880,691 specimen records
- 944,419 (50%) georeferenced
- 183,486 (10%) with images (234,145 total images)
- 6,713 GenBank genetic references
- 1,063,654 (57%) identified to species
- 3,080 families
- 14,644 genera
- 60,181 species
- 62,005 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
This project is supported by the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology through an award titled
"Advancing Revisionary Taxonomy and Systematics: Integrative Research and Training in Tropical Taxonomy"
(DEB-1456674).
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed on this website are those of the authors and do not
necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.