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The UBC Fish Museum is home to the second largest fish collection in Canada, containing over 800,000 alcohol-stored whole fishes, cleared
and stained specimens that reveal internal bony structure, skeletal preparations, and X-ray images. The Collection also includes extensive tissue
and DNA archives. There are over 5,000 individual DNA samples of mostly freshwater fishes from northwestern North America, many of which are
paired with whole specimen collections. Together, these whole animal and DNA collections are used by members of the
Native Fishes Research Group at UBC and visitors in various studies
of fish systematics, taxonomy, conservation biology, and evolutionary genetics.
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Over the years, collectors with particular research interests have enriched the Museum in certain areas. The Museum has excellent holdings of
nearshore marine fishes, largely from the northeastern Pacific (including extensive collections from the Aleutian Peninsula), the Malay
Archipelago, Mexico, and the Galapagos. The freshwater holdings include extensive collections from northwestern North America, Panama, and the
Amazon Basin.
At present, there is no provision for the loaning of specimens from the Museum. Individual researchers, however, are welcome to visit the
Museum to examine and collect data from the collection. The Collection has two adjacent rooms that can be used to examine specimens.
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