OCCURRENCE

UAM Fish Collection (Arctos)

Latest version published by University of Alaska Museum of the North on 6 August 2023 University of Alaska Museum of the North
The UAM fish collection targets the freshwater and marine fish fauna of Alaska and nearby regions.The collection is part of the University of Alaska Museum within the University of Alaska Fairbanks. At present (2013), UAM fish collection holdings consist of approximately 6000 lots collected over the past five decades. The collection is the repository of oceanographic field surveys in the Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort seas along with freshwater material collected by researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. More recently, the collection has been growing through the field efforts of state and federal agencies, as well as substantial transfers of lots from the privately held Point Stephens Research collection.
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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 10,352 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)
    10352
  • Multimedia 
    561

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

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Data as a DwC-A file download 10,352 records in English (7 MB) - Update frequency: unknown
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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:

UAM Fishes, University of Alaska Museum, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Alaska Museum of the North. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 2f46fe6f-b9fd-4dba-8ca2-2cb1368ceed8.  University of Alaska Museum of the North 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:

Andres Lopez
Curator of Fishes
University of Alaska Museum
907 Yukon Drive
99775-6960 Fairbanks
AK
US
http://www.uaf.edu/museum/collections/aqua/

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Andres Lopez
Curator of Fishes
University of Alaska Museum
907 Yukon Drive
99775-6960 Fairbanks
AK
US
http://www.uaf.edu/museum/collections/aqua/

Who filled in the metadata:

Andres Lopez
Curator of Fishes
University of Alaska Museum
907 Yukon Drive
99775-6960 Fairbanks
AK
US
http://www.uaf.edu/museum/collections/aqua/

Who else was associated with the resource:

Programmer
Laura Russell
VertNet Programmer
Programmer
David Bloom
VertNet Coordinator
Programmer
John Wieczorek
Information Architect
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley
Point Of Contact
Dusty McDonald
Arctos Database Programmer
University of Alaska Museum
http://arctos.database.museum

Geographic Coverage

North America, North Pacific Ocean, Arctic Ocean, Asia, Europe.

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

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Class  Actinopterygii,  Cephalaspidomorphi,  Chondrichthyes,  Osteichthyes,  Myxini.

Temporal Coverage

Living Time Period 1950 to present

Additional Metadata

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

Alternative Identifiers 2f46fe6f-b9fd-4dba-8ca2-2cb1368ceed8
http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=uam_fish