The National Fish Collection is one of the most important collections in the country. It houses almost 14 000 specimens that represents the fish diversity widespread throughout Mexican lakes, rivers, wetlands, deltas and estuaries. It also has samples from the coast and deep waters of the Ocean Pacific and the Gulf of Mexico; as well as fish species from the North and Central America.
The database includes 12 203 records pertaining to 172 families, 530 genera and 1 276 species collected in 1 356 localities.

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