Databases
Collection Databases
Searchable lists of specimens, illustrations, anthropological collections, and summary information about the National Museum of Natural History collections.
Museum Collection Records
All of our database holdings are currently being moved into a new Research and Collections Information System (RCIS), known as EMu. This system will allow us to provide access to more of our collections over the next several years.
Some data are still available from our old systems. These are listed below:
Type Specimen Holdings
General Holdings
- US National Herbarium Wood Collection
- National Anthropological Archives & Human Studies Film Archives
Scientific Illustrations and Images
Reference Databases
Information resources that support or are the products of taxonomic and nomenclatural research at the National Museum of Natural History.
- Mammal Species of the World
- Index Nominum Genericorum
- Checklist of the Plants of the Guianas
- Checklist of Lichenized Fungi of the Guianas
- World List of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans
- Spring Flowering Records
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
Bibliographies
Comprehensive lists of literature references compiled and/or maintained by National Museum of Natural History staff in selected areas of natural history research.
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