CUMV Fish Collection

The CUMV Fish Collection was established shortly after the founding of the university in 1865. Many of our earliest specimens were collected by well-known researchers such as David Starr Jordan, Carl Eigenmann, Charles Frederick Hartt and Seth Meek. By 1935, the collection contained only 3,000 lots, but during the following 35 years, Edward Raney and his students built the finest collection of eastern North American freshwater fishes in existence today. In Collette and Lachner's (1976) report on fish collections in the United States and Canada, the CUMV Fish Collection ranked thirteenth among all collections and fourth among National Resource Centers in North America. Although there is worldwide representation of both marine and freshwater species, the bulk of the 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. Some specimens are from the original New York State Biological Survey (1926–1939). Many of our collections are from the highly industrialized Northeast and Middle Atlantic states and thus document earlier faunas in habitats now greatly altered, and we have repeated samples through time from many of these localities. The primary activities for the last several years has been collection building efforts directed toward African freshwater fishes.

CUMV鱼类收藏馆始建于1865年，即大学创立之后不久。我们最早的标本多由知名研究者如David Starr Jordan、Carl Eigenmann、Charles Frederick Hartt和Seth Meek等采集。至1935年，该收藏馆仅有3000件藏品，但在随后的35年里，Edward Raney及其学生构建了目前世界上最为优秀的东部北美淡水鱼类收藏。在Collette和Lachner（1976）对美国和加拿大鱼类收藏的报告中，CUMV鱼类收藏在所有收藏馆中排名第十三，在北美国家资源中心中排名第四。尽管该收藏馆展示了全球范围内的海洋和淡水物种，但其主体部分强烈代表了东部北美淡水鱼类，并成为北美鱼类区系众多系统学研究的基础。大量材料属于大型地理系列，许多地点在长时间内被反复采样。部分标本来自最初的纽约州生物调查（1926-1939）。许多收藏来自高度工业化的东北部和中部大西洋州，从而记录了现在已大幅改变的栖息地中的早期群落，我们已从这些地点随时间进行了重复采样。过去几年来的主要活动是针对非洲淡水鱼类的收藏构建工作。