With nearly 100,000 catalogued specimens, the UIMNH Amphibian and Reptile Collection is among the largest in North America. The geographic emphasis is Mexico, but there are large holdings from the United States, Canada, Ecuador, Cuba, the Philippines, and Venezuela. There are approximately 2,000 type specimens; including over 170 primary types.
University of Illinois Museum of Natural History Amphibian and Reptile Collection. Occurrence dataset (ID: b8485d27-530d-458a-8569-8333fee00916) https://biocoll.inhs.illinois.edu/portal/content/dwca/UIMNH-HERP-UIMNH_DwC-A.zip accessed via the INHS Collections Data Portal, biocoll.inhs.illinois.edu/portal, 2026-03-16).
