c a n h m i — i m h n a c
Central Africa natural history museum initiative – l’initiative pour les muséums d’histoire naturelle en Afrique centraleWho we are
Over the past decade, John Sullivan (left), Research Associate at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, and John Friel (right), Curator at the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates (CUMV) in Ithaca, New York, have been studying African freshwater fishes with colleagues in Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Tanzania, Zambia, South Africa, Benin, and Ethiopia. CUMV houses one of the largest collections of African freshwater fishes in North America with particular strength in the fishes of Central Africa and Lake Tanganyika. CUMV is the Africa hub of the NSF-sponsored All Catfish Species Inventory.
The idea for CANHMI is a product of our experience with collection-based systematics of African organisms (fishes in our case!) and interactions with African biologists and the conservation community.
