Search MBD Fish Division Database

Search MBD Fish Division Database

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.