Description
The ACUNHC Marine Invertebrate Collection is comprised of roughly 1,200 documented specimens from the Class: Bivalvia (208), Gastropoda (1,123), and Polyplacophora (16). The collection maintains a healthy number of marine echinoderms. The holdings exceed this number and the collection is in the process of being catalogued.
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 1,355 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.
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.
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:
Abilene Christian University Marine Invertebrate Collection. Individual catalog records should be cited as https://arctos.database.museum/guid/ACUNHC:Inv: followed by the integer catalog number.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Abilene Christian University Natural History Collection. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: ca62d9a7-e2b0-4755-b7a0-f7406a4f80ac. Abilene Christian University Natural History Collection publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
Global
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Aquatic invertebrates
| Phylum | Anthozoa |
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| Class | Asteroidea, Bivalvia, Cephalopoda, Echinoidea, Gastropoda, Hexanauplia, Hydrozoa, Malacostraca, Ophiuroidea, Polychaeta, Polyplacophora |
Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | 1900-present |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | Abilene Christian University Marine invertebrate specimens |
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| Collection Identifier | https://arctos.database.museum/collection/ACUNHC:Inv |
| Parent Collection Identifier | ACUNHC |
Additional Metadata
Arctos Data Ownership and Use: http://arctosdb.org/home/data/; http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html
| Purpose | Education and research. |
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| Alternative Identifiers | ca62d9a7-e2b0-4755-b7a0-f7406a4f80ac |
| https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=acunhc_inv |