• Total Number of Specimens                                    50,000+
  • Number of Species                                                           85
  • Number of Genera                                                           52
  • Number of Families                                                          20
  • Number of Orders                                                            11

Trout jars

*NOTE:  The last inventory count was completed in 1986.   Specimens are currently being entered into a digital database, thanks to a CLIR grant, and numbers will be updated as they become available.

Montana State University Vertebrate Museum Fish Collection is now available online:

Rice, Chloe L., Debinski, Diane M., Bramblett, Robert G., Rubin, Sarah E., Ivie, Michael A., Clark, Jason A., Evans, Autumn C., Smithers, Brian V., & McMahon, Thomas E. (2022). Montana State University Vertebrate Museum Fish Collection (Version 1) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5847350

Bramblett, R.G., C.L. Rice, J.A. Clark, M.A. Ivie, H.E.D. Stewart, and D.M. Debinski. 2021.  Montana Prairie Fish Collection, Montana State University. Data Publication.  https://zenodo.org/record/5585950#.YdzSUo5KhaQ