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1,100,502 specimen records across 6 departments, collected since 1754 — 100,256 names, 42,336 type specimens.

1,100,502 records are online, about 5% of the Museum's 22 million specimens. More are added every day.

Polydactylus sexfilis

BPBM 34888 · W.A. Gosline et al., aboard R/V "Hugh M. Smith", 1950

Midway Atoll

Entomacrodus marmoratus

BPBM 34890 · W.A. Gosline et al., aboard R/V "Hugh M. Smith", 1950

Midway Atoll

Priolepis eugenius

BPBM 34891 · W.A. Gosline et al., aboard R/V "Hugh M. Smith", 1950

Midway Atoll

Thalassoma purpureum

BPBM 34892 · W.A. Gosline et al., aboard R/V "Hugh M. Smith", 1950

Midway Atoll

Gymnothorax steindachneri

BPBM 34893 · W.A. Gosline et al., aboard R/V "Hugh M. Smith", 1950

Midway Atoll

Scolecenchelys cookei

BPBM 34894 · W.A. Gosline et al., aboard R/V "Hugh M. Smith", 1950

Midway Atoll

Schultzidia johnstonensis

BPBM 34895 · W.A. Gosline et al., aboard R/V "Hugh M. Smith", 1950

Midway Atoll

Enneapterygius atriceps

BPBM 34896 · W.A. Gosline et al., aboard R/V "Hugh M. Smith", 1950

Midway Atoll

Pardachirus morrowi

BPBM 35795 · J.E. Randall, M.M. Smith, and R. van der Elst, 1979

KwaZulu-Natal

Plectropomus leopardus

BPBM 37039 · James C. Tyler and C. Lavett Smith, 1969

Endeavour Reef

Chrysiptera annulata

BPBM 38562 · J.E. Randall and M.M. Smith, 1973

Mauritius

Gymnothorax chilospilus

BPBM 39010 · R/V "Hugh M. Smith" cruise 8, 1951

Rose Atoll

Diodon hystrix

BPBM 39108 · R/V "Hugh M. Smith" cruise 1, 1949

Hawaiʻi Island

Diodon hystrix

BPBM 39109 · J.E. King, aboard R/V "Hugh M. Smith" cruise 3, 1950

Hawaiʻi Island

Callechelys catostoma

BPBM 39124 · Chloe S. Smith, 2002

Oʻahu

Eviota epiphanes

BPBM 39533 · W.A. Gosline et al., aboard R/V "Hugh M. Smith" cruise 5, 1950

French Frigate Shoals

Eviota epiphanes

BPBM 39534 · W.A. Gosline et al., aboard R/V "Hugh M. Smith", 1950

French Frigate Shoals

Eviota epiphanes

BPBM 39535 · W.A. Gosline et al., aboard R/V "Hugh M. Smith", 1950

Midway Atoll

Eviota epiphanes

BPBM 39536 · W.A. Gosline, H. Mann, and T. Cromwell, aboard R/V "Hugh M. Smith", 1950

Laysan

Pempheris nesogallica

BPBM 41079 · J.E. Randall and W.F. Smith-Vaniz, 1980

Kerala State

Pempheris

BPBM 41164 · M.M. Smith, 1973

Mozambique

Thalassoma trilobatum

BPBM 4586 · Mrs. Arthur Smith, 1922

Oʻahu

Zapogon evermanni

BPBM 7825 · J.E. Randall, G.R. Allen, W.F. Smith-Vaniz, S.N. Swerdloff, and C. Allen, 1969

Oʻahu

Sebastapistes galactacma

BPBM 7925 · J.E. Randall, W.F. Smith-Vaniz, S.N. Swerdloff, G.R. Allen, and C. Allen, 1969

Oʻahu