Database Instructions
To search for our records:
- Click on the button for the OSU Museum of Biological Diversity Fish Division Database. The search page comes up.
- At the top of the page, above the name “Taxa:Chordata”, is a search bar. You can search for Order, Family, Genus and species. Type the name and hit your enter button on your keyboard.
- A page appears that lists the count of specimen records in our database.
- If there are not too many records simply click on the “Specimens | Count:(number of specimens)” and the webpage will populate with the records.
- If there are multitudinous records you can download a csv file with the records to your email address, and sort it by columns like an Excel spreadsheet to find what you’re looking for.
- Only records with the prefix OSUM contain physical specimens, records with the prefix OSUMU are only capture/observation records, although some may have photos.
Online Database
833 lots and 5,977 tissues in total
167 species total
We have tissues for 106 of 186 Ohio fish species (57%)
Group 1 Petromyzontidae: 43 tissues, 7 species
Group 4 Polyodontidae: 1 tissue, 1 species
Group 5 Anguillidae: 1 tissue, 1 species
Group 7 Dorosomatidae: 1 tissue, 1 species
Group 8 Salmonidae: 1 tissue, 1 species
Group 9 Umbridae: 18 tissues, 1 species
Group 12 Cyprinidae, Leucisidae, Characidae: 1,381 tissues, 46 species
Group 13 Catostomidae: 62 tissues, 14 species
Group 14 Ictaluridae: 162 tissues, 8 species
Group 16 Lotidae: 2 tissues, 1 species
Group 17 Percopsidae, Atherinopsidae, Fundulidae: 92 tissues, 5 species
Group 18 Gasterosteidae: 22 tissues, 1 species
Group 20 Centrarchidae: 283 tissues, 13 species
Group 21 Percidae: 3,850 tissues, 62 species
Group 22 Gobiidae, Sciaenidae,Tetraodontidae: 58 tissues, 5 species
It is the mission of the Museum of Biological Diversity Fish Division to build a strong representative collection of North American freshwater fishes with secondary strengths in Mexico and Central America. To build a strong collection from lakes, rivers, and streams of Ohio with the best documentation available; this includes a repository for all the states' rare, threatened and endangered voucher specimens. To maintain an ongoing relationship with the state of Ohio agencies involved in fish research. These include Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency Division of Surface Waters. (Sometimes, however, we acquire specimens from farther away!)