Ichthyology Collections
Collection Highlights
The Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates maintains a large collection of fishes. Materials housed here are from around the globe and right here at home. The bulk of the CUMV collection is strongly representative of freshwater fishes from eastern North America and has formed the basis for numerous systematic works on the North American fish fauna. Much of the material is in large geographic series, and many sites have been sampled repeatedly through extended periods of time.