NCSM Mollusk Collection
Latest version published by North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences on Jun 23, 2021
The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences' Mollusks Collection is comprised of over half a million specimens that are 83% freshwater species (mussels, fingernail clams and snails), 10% marine species and 7% terrestrial species (snails).
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 36,318 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.
Downloads
Download the latest version of this resource data as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) or the resource metadata as EML or RTF:
| Data as a DwC-A file | download 36,318 records in English (5 MB) - Update frequency: biannually |
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| Metadata as an EML file | download in English (10 KB) |
| Metadata as an RTF file | download in English (6 KB) |
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Smith J, Bogan A, Norton B (2017): NCSM Mollusk Collection. North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=ncsm-unio.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences. 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: 51c49096-dc31-4077-b35c-4510a8ee1ee8. North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by U.S. Geological Survey.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen
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Geographic Coverage
Global coverage spanning at least 94 countries
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Kingdom | Animalia |
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| Phylum | Mollusca, Arthropoda |
Collection Data
| Collection Name | Mollusks Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences |
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| Collection Identifier | NCSM-UNIO |
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 51c49096-dc31-4077-b35c-4510a8ee1ee8 |
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| 10.36102/dwc.7 | |
| http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=ncsm-unio |