REPOSITORIES OF SILURIFORM TYPES

The Catalog of Fishes database (Eschmeyer et al.) identifies about 150 repositories containing primary types corresponding to 3587 of the 4382 nominal species assigned to Siluriformes. Types are identified as missing, lost, destroyed, unknown, never existed, etc. for 1205 nominal species.
* Numbers include cases where location and/or existence of name-bearing type(s) is probable or inferred from original description. That is, type(s) are not treated as "missing" etc., but existence at repository remains questionable or unconfirmed. It should be noted that a single type specimen may correspond to multiple nominal species. For instance, BMNH 1853.11.12.193 (1 specimen) is the only extant type of Acanthodoras cataphractus (Linnaeus 1758) and its junior synonyms Cataphractus americanus Bloch & Schneider 1801, Cataphractus americanus Lacepède 1803, Doras blochii Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1840, and Callichthys asper Gronow in Gray 1854.

Repositories of name-bearing types of Siluriformes identified in Catalog of Fishes database
(Collection Abbreviations)
Country
Species represented by single name-bearing types*
Species represented by syntypes*
Total number of species represented by name-bearing types*
BMNH United Kingdom (England)
353
290
643
MNHN France
235
157
392
NMW Austria
120
144
264
ANSP USA
208
32
240
FMNH USA
191
9
200
RMNH Netherlands
115
68
183
CAS USA
160
15
175
USNM USA
130
35
165
MRAC Belgium
123
39
162
MZUSP Brazil
134
0
134
ZMB Germany
64
52
116
MCZ USA
59
48
107
ZSI India
58
33
91
MNRJ Brazil
82
5
87
AMNH USA
61
7
68
ZMA Netherlands
52
16
68
AMS Australia
23
32
55
ZRC Singapore
38
0
38
UMMZ USA
34
2
36
MSNG Italy
9
26
35
NRM Sweden
24
11
35
IRSNB Belgium
31
3
34
ZMUC Denmark
16
17
33
MBUCV Venezuela
32
0
32
MCP Brazil
31
0
31
MZB Indonesia
29
0
29
SMF Germany
16
8
24
KIZ China
20
1
21
INPA Brazil
18
0
18
MHNG Switzerland
12
5
17
NMV Australia
0
16
16
AMG South Africa
14
1
15
MCNG Venezuela
12
0
12
NMBA Switzerland
4
8
12
AFY [author's collection, Fernández-Yépez] unknown
10
0
10
MACN Argentina
7
3
10
MZUT Italy
5
5
10
SMNS Germany
1
9
10
ASIZB/ZMFMIB China
8
0
8
MLP Argentina
8
0
8
ZMH Germany
8
0
8
?DVZUT Vietnam
5
2
7
ICNMHN Colombia
7
0
7
ZISP Russia
2
5
7
EEBP Brazil
3
3
6
MHNM Uruguay
5
1
6
MSNM Italy
2
4
6
MUSM Peru
6
0
6
WAM Australia
6
0
6
GCM Pakistan
5
0
5
MHNLS Venezuela
5
0
5
MTD Germany
3
2
5
QM Australia
3
2
5
SAIAB (formerly RUSI) South Africa
3
2
5
ZFMK Germany
5
0
5
INHS USA
4
0
4
LIVCM unknown
4
0
4
MUMF India
4
0
4
Mus. Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc. China China
4
0
4
Mus. Cien. Nat. del Chaco Argentina
4
0
4
MZUB Italy
4
0
4
ROM Canada
4
0
4
ZMUO Norway
4
0
4
Author's collection [Orcés V.] unknown
3
0
3
FFSUC Chile
3
0
3
FML Argentina
3
0
3
LACM USA
3
0
3
MD Angola
3
0
3
MZUF Italy
2
1
3
SAMA Australia
3
0
3
UBJTL Colombia
3
0
3
ZMMU Russia
2
1
3
ZMUL Sweden
3
0
3
ZMUU Sweden
2
1
3
BZM Germany ?
2
0
2
IHASW China
0
2
2
ILPLA Argentina
2
0
2
Mar. Biol. Inst. Kyoto Univ. [? now FAKU] Japan
2
0
2
MBLUZ Venezuela
2
0
2
Mus. Inst. Hydrobiol. Acad. Sinica, Hupei [? = IHASW] Japan
0
2
2
Mus. Nacional Argentina, Buenos Aires Argentina
0
2
2
NIFI Thailand
2
0
2
NMBE Switzerland
2
0
2
"NMH" [? ZMH] Germany ?
2
0
2
NMSZ United Kingdom (Scotland)
0
2
2
NTM Australia
2
0
2
SAM South Africa
2
0
2
SMK Malaysia
2
0
2
TU USA
2
0
2
ZMU [? ZMUU] Sweden ?
2
0
2
ZSM Germany
2
0
2
"Uncataloged" [India?] India ?
1
0
1
Author's collection [Carranza] unknown
1
0
1
Author's collection [Risso & Risso] unknown
1
0
1
BCUE Korea
1
0
1
Bhagalpur Univ., Dept. Zool. Mus. India
0
1
1
Cambridge Philosophical Inst. USA
1
0
1
CMNFI/NMC Canada
1
0
1
CSIRO Australia
1
0
1
Fish. Lab., Dept. Zool., Univ. Calcutta India
1
0
1
FRLM Japan
1
0
1
IBUNAM Mexico
1
0
1
Inst. Biol. aplicada, Barcelona Spain
1
0
1
Inst. Biol. Mexico Mexico
1
0
1
Inst. Océanogr. Indochine, Nhatrang, Viet Nam Vietnam
1
0
1
INVEMAR Colombia
1
0
1
IUQ Colombia ?
1
0
1
IZUA Chile
1
0
1
JNU China
1
0
1
KU USA
1
0
1
KUMF Thailand
1
0
1
Lab. d'Hydrobiol. Cotonou, Benin Benin
1
1
Luxemburg Mus. Luxemburg
1
0
1
Lyceum Nat. Hist. NY USA
1
0
1
MCN Brazil
1
0
1
MHNLR France
0
1
1
MNSB Hungary
1
0
1
MSUM USA
1
0
1
Mus. Freshw. Fish. Res. Sta. Chandpur Bangladesh
1
0
1
Mus. Freshw. Fishes, Inst. Hydrobiol. Wuhan China
1
0
1
Mus. Hist. Nat. Pirassununga Brazil
1
0
1
Mus. TINRO Russia
1
0
1
Mus. Zool. Univ. Barcelona Spain
1
0
1
Museo Bouvieri. Colombia ?
1
0
1
NMK Kenya
1
0
1
NMSL Sri Lanka
1
0
1
NSMT-P Japan
1
0
1
PEM South Africa
1
0
1
Princeton Univ. USA
1
0
1
Qinghai Inst. Biol. China
0
1
1
QVMS Zimbabwe
1
0
1
SBM East Malaysia
1
0
1
Sec. Caza y Pesca, Min. Nat. Econ. Bogotá Colombia
1
0
1
Shaanxi Inst. Zool. China
1
0
1
Sichuan Agric. Univ. China
1
0
1
SIUC USA
1
0
1
SMNH [? = NHRM] Sweden ?
1
0
1
SNHM Sudan
1
0
1
SNMB Czechoslovakia
1
0
1
SPNRI China
1
0
1
Stuttgart Mus. Germany
1
0
1
TMNH USA
1
0
1
UG/CSBD Guyana
1
0
1
Univ. Nac. del Nordeste Argentina
1
0
1
UZMO  
1
0
1
ZMT Georgia
0
1
1
ZMUH Viet Nam
1
0
1
Zool. Mus. Gorakhpur Univ. India
1
0
1
Zool. Mus. Ukranian Acad. Kiev Ukraine
1
0
1
Zool. Mus., Art and Sci. Univ. Rangoon Lpi Myanmar
1
0
1


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