Fish
- Total Number of Specimens 50,000+
- Number of Species 85
- Number of Genera 52
- Number of Families 20
- Number of Orders 11
*NOTE: The last inventory count was completed in 1986. Specimens are currently being entered into a digital database, thanks to a CLIR grant, and numbers will be updated as they become available.
Montana State University Vertebrate Museum Fish Collection is now available online:
Rice, Chloe L., Debinski, Diane M., Bramblett, Robert G., Rubin, Sarah E., Ivie, Michael A., Clark, Jason A., Evans, Autumn C., Smithers, Brian V., & McMahon, Thomas E. (2022). Montana State University Vertebrate Museum Fish Collection (Version 1) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5847350
Bramblett, R.G., C.L. Rice, J.A. Clark, M.A. Ivie, H.E.D. Stewart, and D.M. Debinski. 2021. Montana Prairie Fish Collection, Montana State University. Data Publication. https://zenodo.org/record/5585950#.YdzSUo5KhaQ