OCCURRENCE

NCSM Non-molluscan Invertebrates Collection

Latest version published by North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences on 5 May 2023 North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences
The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences’ Non-molluscan Invertebrate Collection houses well over 250,000 specimens representing more than 20 phyla. With specimens dating back to the 1870s, the Collection reflects nearly a century and a half of collecting in freshwater, terrestrial, and near- and far-shorts marine habitats of the Carolinas, Mid-Atlantic Region, and southeastern USA. It includes one of the largest collections of freshwater crayfish in, and of the southeastern USA, a substantial and internationally significant myriapod collection, and one of the largest and most historically important collections of marine invertebrates in the Mid-Atlantic region.

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 12,497 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:

Williams, B, McCuller, M, Norton B (2017): NCSM Non-molluscan Invertebrates Collection. North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences. Dataset/Occurrence. https://doi.org/10.36102/dwc.8.

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: 96cdea48-b78a-4345-ae6d-b2c7c6e0278a.  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; Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

Who created the resource:

Ben Norton
Head of Technology, Collections Data Curator
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
11 West Jones Street
27601 Raleigh
NC
US
919.707.9947
https://naturalsciences.org/staff/ben-norton

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Megan McCuller
Collections Manager, Non-molluscan Invertebrates
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
11 West Jones Street
27601 Raleigh
NC
US
919.707.9957
https://naturalsciences.org/staff/megan-mcculler
Bronwyn Williams
Research Curator, Non-molluscan Invertebrates
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
11 West Jones Street
27601 Raleigh
NC
US
919-707-8862
https://naturalsciences.org/staff/bronwyn-williams

Who filled in the metadata:

Ben Norton
Head of Technology
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
11 West Jones Street
27601 Raleigh
NC
US
919.707.9947
https://naturalsciences.org/staff/ben-norton

Who else was associated with the resource:

Programmer
David Bloom
VertNet Coordinator
http://www.vertnet.org
Programmer
John Wieczorek
Information Architect
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley

Geographic Coverage

The Non-molluscan Invertebrates Collection covers 42 countries across all seven continents.

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, -180]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Phylum  Annelida,  Porifera,  Nemertea,  Bryozoa,  Arthropoda,  Brachiopoda,  Foraminifera,  Ciliophora,  Platyhelminthes,  Nematoda,  Cnidaria,  Echinodermata,  Nematomorpha

Collection Data

Collection Name Non-molluscan Invertebrates Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
Collection Identifier NCSM-NMI

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 96cdea48-b78a-4345-ae6d-b2c7c6e0278a
10.36102/dwc.8
http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=ncsm_nmi