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It also has a respectable marine collection, and one of the top collections of land snails in the United States.</span> </span> </div> </div> <div class="item loading "> <div class="image-wrapper"> <div data-alt="Division of Fishes " class="lsa-slide-pict" data-lsa-slide="slide-2">  <div data-src="/content/dam/ummz-assets/ummz-slideshow/slideshow4.jpg.transform/big/image.jpg" data-media="(min-width: 1px)"></div> <div data-src="/content/dam/ummz-assets/ummz-slideshow/slideshow4.jpg.transform/xbig/image.jpg" data-media="(min-width: 992px)"></div> </div> </div>  <div class="caption bottom dark left"> <span> <a class="themeText themeLink lsa-slideshow-click" href="/ummz/fishes.html">Division of Fishes </a> <span class="teaser">The Division of Fishes of the Museum of Zoology is a research resource and teaching center dedicated to the study of fish evolution, phylogeny, distribution, ecology, and behavior. We have about 3.5 million catalogued specimens available for study. 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