Description
The Denver Museum of Nature & Science Marine Invertebrate Collection dates to the early 1900s. It is a diverse collection of worldwide specimens, the largest portion being marine shells. It also has specimens of echinoderms, corals, sponges, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Despite its name, it includes a substantial collection of land and freshwater snail shells. The collection contains nearly 50,000 lots, of which more than half are databased in Arctos with more being added to the database each week. More than half of the databased lots are geolocated, and over 1,000 specimen records have images. Specimens in the collection represent nearly 6,000 species in over 450 families. Specimens come from over 150 countries with the majority from the United States and most of those from Florida and Hawaii. All specimens have been donated to the Museum by shell collectors, including many self-collected specimens.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 34,036 records.
1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
- Occurrence (core)
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Denver Museum of Nature & Science Marine Invertebrate Collection
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GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 5a6977c1-ece6-44b8-b71d-43cb1d4e0919. Denver Museum of Nature & Science publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by U.S. Geological Survey.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence
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Geographic Coverage
The Denver Museum of Nature & Science Marine Invertebrate Collection is global, with an emphasis on Hawaii, Mexico, coastal (east and west) U.S., and Australia.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
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| Class | Gastropoda, Bivalvia, Anthozoa, Echinoidea, Polyplacophora, Cephalopoda, Scaphopoda, Articulata, Asteroidea, Magnoliopsida, Hydrozoa, Demospongiae, Liliopsida, Rhynchonellata, Inarticulata, Merostomata, Maxillopoda, Hexactinellida |
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Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | 1900-present |
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Additional Metadata
| Purpose | Natural History Research and Education |
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| Alternative Identifiers | 5a6977c1-ece6-44b8-b71d-43cb1d4e0919 |
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