Ichthyology Collection - Interdisciplinary Center for Marine Sciences
Original (non-English) name
Colección Ictiológica - Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas
Acronym
CI - CICIMAR-IPN
Citation
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Abstract
The Ichthyological Collection (CI) of the Interdisciplinary Center for Marine Sciences (CICIMAR-IPN), with more than thirty years of activities, houses the most representative scientific collection of marine ichthyological diversity in the Mexican Pacific, mainly in northwestern Mexico. The CI has institutional recognition as a coadjuvant body of the substantive functions of the Center (teaching, training of human resources, research and dissemination), with its own space and facilities as well as its registration in the National Institute of Ecology (code BCS.PEC. 0890300).
The dissemination of the results generated in the research initiatives of the CI, have produced in the section of the publications counted since 1988, more than 70 works and a book, made with materials of the CI or with an explicit reference to them, among which the description of three new species stands out. On the other hand, the training of human resources assigned to the research projects of the CI, through social service, professional practices, courses, undergraduate and postgraduate theses have produced 3 doctoral graduates, 10 masters and 7 undergraduates. Currently the CI inventory is made up of about 105,000 specimens grouped into 3 classes, 36 orders, 132 families, 331 genera and 574 species (> 35% of those known in the country) cataloged in approximately 6,
The CI DB is part of the National System of Information on Biodiversity (SNIB) and is a node of the Mexican Network of Information on Biodiversity (REMIB) of the National Commission for the knowledge and use of Biodiversity (CONABIO), being also the The only fish collection in Latin America incorporated into the project of global fish databases: FishBase ( http://www.fishbase.org).