Illinois Natural History Survey - Crustacean Collection (INHS-CRUSTACEAN)
The collection contains primary types of nine species and secondary types of 5 species. The collection contains over 91,000 specimens and 12,100 lots of approximately 350 species in 30 families. Almost all are from North America. About 50% of the collection is from Illinois; the remainder is mostly from the southeastern United States. The best represented groups are crayfishes, shrimps, scuds, slaters, and pill bugs. A few lots of marine crustaceans found along the North American coastline are also present in the collection.
Fluid Collections Manager: Enrique Santoyo-Brito, esbrito@illinois.edu
Acting Curator: Dusty Swedberg, swedberg@illinois.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 20 May 2024
Cite this collection: Illinois Natural History Survey - Crustacean Collection. Occurrence dataset (ID: 257ea482-2d6f-4cf4-846d-8efeb58f6727) https://biocoll.inhs.illinois.edu/portal/content/dwca/INHS-CRUSTACEAN_DwC-A.zip accessed via the INHS Collections Data Portal, biocoll.inhs.illinois.edu/portal, 2025-02-12).
Collection Statistics
17,946 specimen records
16,838 (94%) georeferenced
5,409 (30%) with images (5,441 total images) 5,945 (33%) identified to species 32 families 24 genera 209 species 216 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Geographic Distribution - Tennessee
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Anderson (3 ) Bedford (30 ) Benton (17 ) Bledsoe (7 ) Bledsoe/ Sequatchie (1 ) Blount (14 ) Bradley (5 ) Campbell (9 ) Cannon (34 ) Carroll (17 ) Carter (5 ) Cheatham (13 ) Chester (2 ) Claiborne (2 ) Clairborne (5 ) Clay (10 ) Cocke (7 ) Cocke/ Hamblen (1 ) Coffee (15 ) Cumberland (2 ) Davidson (7 ) DeKalb (18 ) Decatur (18 ) Dickson (7 ) Fayette (1 ) Fentress (3 ) Franklin (1 ) Giles (16 ) Grainger (4 ) Greene (7 ) Hamblen (4 ) Hamilton (2 ) Hancock (8 ) Hardeman (10 ) Hardin (24 ) Hawkins (7 ) Henderson (19 ) Henry (37 ) Hickman (27 ) Houston (11 ) Humphrey (1 ) Humphreys (24 ) Jackson (3 ) Jefferson (4 ) Johnson (5 ) Knox (4 ) Lake (2 ) Lawrence (53 ) Lewis (14 ) Lincoln (11 ) Loudon (1 ) Macon (10 ) Marion (2 ) Marshall (5 ) Maury (10 ) McMinn (4 ) McNairy (10 ) Monroe (2 ) Montgomery (13 ) Moore (1 ) Morgan (2 ) Morgan/ Fentress (1 ) Obion (2 ) Overton (2 ) Perry (15 ) Polk (20 ) Putnam (10 ) Rhea (1 ) Roane (1 ) Robertson (6 ) Rutherford (11 ) Scott (5 ) Sequatchie (3 ) Sevier (8 ) Smith (5 ) Stewart (1 ) Sullivan (13 ) Sumner (5 ) Trousdale (3 ) Unicoi (5 ) Union (2 ) Van Buren (5 ) Warren (15 ) Washington (3 ) Wayne (64 ) Weakley (2 ) White (5 ) Williamson (8 ) Wilson (5 )