Description
The ROM ichthyology collection has over one million specimens of approximately 7,000 species from around the world. The collection currently holds over 100,000 catalogued lots, including 160 holotypes and 1,302 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. The collection has significant holdings in Indo-pacific marine fishes and is growing rapidly in freshwater South American fishes. Highlights of the fish collection include the last Atlantic Salmon specimens from Lake Ontario before their extirpation in the 1850s; a Coelacanth from the Comoros; 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.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 115,074 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Burridge M, Lujan N K (2025). Royal Ontario Museum - Ichthyology. Version 2.1. Royal Ontario Museum. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.5886/gbendr
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Royal Ontario Museum. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 6ff42543-528d-4249-99bd-350bdd21b424. Royal Ontario Museum publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canada Biodiversity Information Facility.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen
Contacts
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Assistant Curator
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Associate Curator
Geographic Coverage
Global.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-86, -179.583], North East [79.964, 179.929] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
N/A
| Kingdom | Animalia |
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| Phylum | Chordata |
| Class | Actinopterygii |
| Order | Centrarchiformes, Esociformes, Cypriniformes, Salmoniformes, Percopsiformes, Perciformes |
| Family | Catostomidae, Cottidae, Percidae, Centrarchidae, Percopsidae, Leuciscidae, Salmonidae, Esocidae |
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 10.5886/gbendr |
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| https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=romi-specimens |