Museo Nacional de Costa Rica (CR)

Specialty: Costa Rica, Mesoamerica, and neotropics; tropical ferns; tropical fungi.
Date Founded: 1887.
Contacts: Armando Estrada, Director,, museohn@racsa.co.cr
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 7 January 2013
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 191,859 specimen records
  • 112,800 (59%) georeferenced
  • 178,949 (93%) identified to species
  • 281 families
  • 2,364 genera
  • 10,897 species
  • 10,897 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Geographic Distribution - Chiapas
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  • MEXICO (3)
  • Mpio de Ixotacomitan (1)
  • Mpio de Ocosingo (9)
  • Mpio de Oxchuc (1)
  • Mpio de Pueblo Nuevo (1)
  • Mpio de Rayon (1)
  • Mpio de Siltepec (4)
  • Mpio de Sinacatan (1)
  • Mpio de Tenajapa (2)
  • Mpio de Tenejapa (7)
  • Mpio de Tila (2)
  • Mpio de Trinitaria (1)
  • Mpio de Tuxtla (1)
  • Mpio de Union (1)
  • Mpio de Yajalon (2)
  • Mpio de Zinacantan (1)
  • Mpio de la Independencia (2)
  • Mpio de la Unión (2)
  • Municipio La Independencia (1)
  • Municipio de Ixtacomitan (1)
  • Municipio de Ocosingo (31)
  • Municipio de Pantepec (1)
  • Municipio de San Fernando (1)
  • Municipio del Porvenir (1)
  • Municipio of Cintalapa (3)