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Canadian Museum of Nature - Parasites (CMN-PA)

The Canadian Museum of Nature's Parasite Collection, which holds approximately 50,000 lots, contains large numbers of specimens from the Canadian Wildlife Service, Institute of Parasitology (McGill University) and the former Arctic Biological Station (Fisheries and Oceans Canada).

Curator: Jean-Marc Gagnon, jmgagnon@nature.ca
Homepage: https://nature.ca/en/
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 4 November 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)
Rights Holder: Canadian Museum of Nature
Cite this collection:
Canadian Museum of Nature - Parasites. Occurrence dataset (ID: b035e7be-8116-43ff-8a16-f22bb781d110) accessed via the New Brunswick Museum Collections Portal, /portal, 2024-05-03).
Collection Statistics
  • 211 specimen records
  • 135 (64%) georeferenced
  • 123 (58%) identified to species
  • 57 families
  • 57 genera
  • 60 species
  • 60 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
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