OCCURRENCE

Iowa State University Fishes Collection

Latest version published by Iowa State University Museum of Natural History on 26 July 2022 Iowa State University Museum of Natural History
Collection of fishes at Iowa State University, Ames, IA; ~5,000 lots, primarily from Iowa but including small numbers of lots other areas; e.g., CA, DE, FL, MI, MO, NH & MX. Collection was started in the late 1930s by Reeve M. Bailey during his time at Iowa State from 1939-1944. Most lots are from the 1930s and 1940s, but significant numbers are from the 1980s and 2010s.

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 4,769 records.

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

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Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Iowa State University Museum of Natural History Fishes Collection

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Iowa State University Museum of Natural History. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: ee21cfcd-9f34-47f0-ab46-9b21e9db5c5a.  Iowa State University Museum of Natural History publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by U.S. Geological Survey.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence

Contacts

Who created the resource:

John Olson
Collection volunteer
Iowa State University Museum of Natural History
1222 SW 3rd St
50023-2644 Ankeny
IA
US
515-229-6290
Kevin Roe
Curator
Iowa State University
2310 Pammel Dr. 339 Sci 2
50011 Ames
IA
US
5152948332

Who can answer questions about the resource:

John Olson
Collection volunteer
Iowa State University Museum of Natural History
1222 SW 3rd St
50023-2644 Ankeny
IA
US
515-229-6290
Kevin Roe
Curator
Iowa State University
339 Sci 2
50011-3221 Ames
IA
US
5152948332

Who filled in the metadata:

John Olson
Collection volunteer
Iowa State University Museum of Natural History
1222 SW 3rd St
50023-2644 Ankeny
IA
US
515-229-6290
Kevin Roe
Curator
Iowa State University
2310 Pammel Dr. 339 Sci 2
50011 Ames
IA
US
5152948332

Who else was associated with the resource:

Programmer
David Bloom
VertNet Coordinator
http://www.vertnet.org
Programmer
John Wieczorek
Information Architect
http://www.vertnet.org

Geographic Coverage

Fishes of Iowa; also including >= 20 lots from the following: CA (22), DE (26), FL (35), MI (45), MO (24), NH (87), VA (20). Limited numbers of lots from 23 additional U.S. states, three states in Mexico, Argentina, Trinidad and Tobago, and one province in Japan.

Bounding Coordinates South West [24.046, -124.805], North East [49.838, -66.094]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Class  Actinopterygii,  Hyperoartia,  Petromyzontida

Temporal Coverage

Living Time Period 1930 - Present

Additional Metadata

http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html

Alternative Identifiers ee21cfcd-9f34-47f0-ab46-9b21e9db5c5a
http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=isua_fishes