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Available Species Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola) Canvasback (Aythya valigineria) Common Merganser (Mergus Merganser) Gadwall (Anas strepera) Greater White-Fronted Goose (Anser albifrons) Teal Green-Winged Teal (Anas crecca) Hooded Merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus) Lesser Scaup (Aythya affinis) Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) Northern Pintail (Anas acuta) Northern Shoveler (Anas clypeata) Ring-Necked Duck (Aythya collaris) Redhead (Aythya americana) Wood Duck (Aix sponsa)

Available Families Anatidae

The Gustavus Entomology Collection contains six drawers of pinned dragonfly specimens collected on the island of Negros in the Philippines in the general vicinity of Dumaguete City during the months of July, August, and September in 1970. The collector of the material remains a mystery, the pinned specimens were labelled with date and location only,…

Insects are small, invertebrate animals found in nearly every conceivable terrestrial environment. As adults, they have stiff exoskeletons and their bodies are organized into three main regions: head, thorax and abdomen. The head contains one pair of antennae, a pair of compound eyes, and mouthparts that are modified to slice, suck, pierce, lap and/or tear.…

Welcome to the Gustavus Fish Collection! Much of the original Biology Department fish collection (specimens and field notebooks) was destroyed in the tornado of 1998. As a result, many of the specimens now only exist as a teaching collection serving a variety of aquatic and vertebrate courses at Gustavus including Aquatic Biology, Vertebrate Biology, Comparative…

Gustavus Freshwater and Marine Fish Collection Gustavus Bird Collection

Araceae (Arum Family) You may have heard about the Gustavus corpse flower. This plant bloomed in Spring 2020 and attracted over 4000 people! The titan arum is native to Sumatra, Indonesia. Though mistakenly identified as the largest flower in the world, it is really more correct to call it the largest non-branched inflorescence (bouquet of…

The Gustavus Greenhouse hosts a variety of plants from around the world. To learn more about select species found in the greenhouse, explore the links below: Corpse Flower (Amorphophallus titanium) Dwarf Banana Tree (Musa ‘Dwarf Orinoco’) Pitcher Plant (Nepenthes sanguinea) Staghorn Fern (Platycerium spp.)

Two of the collections found in the Gustavus Herbarium have been digitized. To explore these collections, use the links below. John Sandberg Plant Database John Sandberg was a Swedish born botanist who collected extensively in the Northern Midwest and Rocky Mountains of North America during the the 1880s. The Minnesota portion of his collection is…

A Aceraceae Acanthaceae Adoxaceae Alismataceae Amaranthaceae Anacardiaceae Apiaceae Apocynaceae Araceae Araliaceae Aristolochiaceae Asclepiadaceae Asteraceae B Balsaminaceae Berberidaceae Betulaceae Bignoniaceae Boraginaceae Brassicaceae Butomaceae C Cactaceae Campanulaceae Cannabidaceae Caprifoliaceae Caryophyllaceae Celastraceae Chenopodiaceae Cistaceae Convolvulaceae Cornaceae Crassulaceae Cucurbitaceae Cupressaceae D Droseraceae E Elatinaceae Empetraceae Equisetaceae Ericaceae Euphorbiaceae F Fabaceae Fagaceae Fumariaceae G Gentianaceae Geraniaceae Grossulariaceae H Haloragidaceae Hippocastanaceae…