Search the MCZ
Ichthyology Collection
Search help:
- This search is not case sensitive.
- Use standard Boolean links such as "and, not, or" between keywords for more complex searches. For example, use the search phrase "notropis bifrenatus and new hampshire" to retrieve records of Notropis bifrenatus from New Hampshire.
- Use "*" or "%" as wildcards. For example, "%type%" or "*type*" will find all records containing the string "type" (e.g., "holotypes", "syntypes").
- Searches of the Atlantic Ocean can use the 23 provinces established by Backus et al. (1977).
These are best used in conjunction with a generic or family keyword since searches of some of the
provinces can result in the return of over 20 thousand records. The provinces must be spelled as follows: Atlantic Subarctic,
Northern Gyre, Slope Water, Gulf of Mexico, Azores-Britain, Mediterranean
Outflw, W Mediterranean, E. Mediterranean, North Sargasso Sea, South Sargasso
Sea, N North Afr Subtrop, S North Afr Subtrop, Lesser Antillean, Gulf of Mexico,
Caribbean Sea, Amazonian, Guinean, S Atlantic Subtrop, N Mauritanian Upwel,
S Mauritanian Upwel, and S Atlantic Temperate. A suggested search might be
"paraliparis garmani and slope water".
- If you have any questions or comments about the data, please contact
Karsten Hartel, Curatorial Associate, Department of Ichthyology <khartel@oeb.harvard.edu>.
Data Updated November 4, 2009
