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Online Collection Data

Several Web sites provide online access to data from several of the Canadian Museum of Nature's collections. Basic catalogue information is available, such as catalogue number, scientific name, collector, date collected, province, latitude and longitude.

Animals

Markle's Ray, Breviraja marklei CMNFI86-0036.1 (holotype).

Martin Lipman © Canadian Museum of Nature

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Markle's Ray (Breviraja marklei)
Catalogue #: CMNFI 86-0036.1; (holotype)

Access to data associated with many of the museum's North American specimens is provided through Species Access Canada (of the Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility):

  • Anura (frogs and toads): approximately 17 374 records
  • Birds: approximately 88 335 records
  • Fish: approximately 43 356 records
  • Unionoida (freshwater clams): approximately 6299 records

(These data may also be found at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility's Data Portal. This site permits searching across several world-wide collections and allows the user to download records).

Palynology

Polar and equatorial views of fossilized pollen grains, Acer saccharum CMNPYM02374.

Rick Day © Canadian Museum of Nature

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Sugar maple (Acer saccharum)
Catalogue #: CMNPYM 02374
Fossilized pollen grains. The length of a grain on the longest axis is about .35 µm.

Herbarium sheet of fairy slipper, Calypso bulbosa CAN318136.

Micheline Bouchard © Canadian Museum of Nature

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Fairy slipper (Calypso bulbosa)
Catalogue #: CAN 318136

Access to data associated with the museum's palynology collection is provided by Artefacts Canada (of the Canadian Heritage Information Network) in approximately 14 500 records. Fossil and modern pollens are included in the collection.

Plants, Protists and Fungi

Access to data from the museum's National Phycology Collection of Canada is provided by the museum:

Access to data associated with many of the museum's specimens is provided through Species Access Canada (of the Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility):

(These data may also be found at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility's Data Portal. This site permits searching across several world-wide collections and allows the user to download records).

The museum has contributed data to E-Flora BC, an electronic atlas of the plants of British Columbia:
• Vascular plants: approximately 9500 specimens

Cover of Birds of Canada.

John A. Crosby © Canadian Museum of Nature

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Visit Our Library

A catalogue of the museum's library holdings is available online. Members of the public and academia, as well as employees of federal and provincial governments are welcome to use the library's collections.