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https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=mlz_fish
MLZ Fish Collection (Arctos)
Zoe
Scholz
Occidental College - Moore Laboratory of Zoology
Research Assistant
1600 Campus Road
Los Angeles
CA
90041
US
zscholz@oxy.edu
Zoe
Scholz
Occidental College - Moore Laboratory of Zoology
Research Assistant
1600 Campus Road
Los Angeles
CA
90041
US
zscholz@oxy.edu
David
Bloom
VertNet
VertNet Coordinator
dbloom@vertnet.org
http://www.vertnet.org
programmer
Daniel
Pondella
Occidental College - Vantuna Research Group
Director
1600 Campus Road
Los Angeles
CA
90041
US
3232592955
pondella@oxy.edu
curator
Chelsea
Williams
Occidental College - Vantuna Research Group
Research Associate
1600 Campus Road
Los Angeles
CA
90041
US
cmunoz@oxy.edu
pointOfContact
Jonathan
Williams
Occidental College - Vantuna Research Group
Research Scientist
1600 Campus Road
Los Angeles
CA
90041
US
jonwilliams@oxy.edu
pointOfContact
Dusty
McDonald
Arctos
Lead Programmer
http://dustymc@gmail.com
programmer
2025-08-28
eng
The Vantuna Research Group’s (VRG) fish collection, now integrated into the Moore Laboratory of Zoology collection, is located at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. The fish collection totals nearly 600,000 specimens and includes whole organisms (>20,000), larvae (>550,000), tissue samples (6,236), otoliths (19,458), gonads (676), and vertebrae (126). The collection was established by Dr. John S. Stephens in 1960. Stephens and his mentee, Dr. Dan Pondella, the current VRG Director, worked together on rocky-reef fishes of the eastern Pacific. Stephens described the family of Chaenopsidae and Pondella specialized in phylogenetic systematics of bass and groupers. The vast majority of the collection’s specimens are from the Southern California Bight and together encompass the full spatial extent of the southern California rocky reef ecosystem. Taxonomic strengths of the collection, excluding larvae specimens, include Sciaenidae (13,765), Atherinopsidae (3,199), Sebastidae (1,740), Embiotocidae (1,628), and Serranidae (837). Most of the larvae specimens were collected as part of an ongoing study and represent over 45 years of monthly collections—this is one of the largest and longest time-series collections of nearshore fish larvae in the region. Taxonomic strengths of this larvae collection include Gobiidae (166,507), Blenniidae (130,666), Pomacentridae (83,558), and Labrisomidae (52,767).
Occurrence
GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type.xml
Specimen
GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type.xml
Occurrence
GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type_2015-07-10.xml
http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html; Arctos Data Ownership and Use: http://arctosdb.org/home/data/
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The collection has global coverage. The vast majority of the specimens in the collection are from the Southern California Bight and together encompass the full spatial extent of the southern California rocky reef ecosystem.
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90
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1938
2021
class
Actinopterygii
class
Chondrichthyes
class
Petromyzontida
class
Myxini
class
Sarcopterygii
class
Leptocardii
monthly
Zoe
Scholz
Occidental College - Moore Laboratory of Zoology
Research Assistant
1600 Campus Road
Los Angeles
CA
90041
US
zscholz@oxy.edu
2021-03-13T00:00:00.000+00:00
dataset
Moore Laboratory of Zoology, Vantuna Research Group (Arctos)
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