Description
The Invertebrate Zoology Collection contains over 23,000 catalogued lots of marine, freshwater, and terrestrial invertebrates and an estimated 10,000 additional lots of uncatalogued specimens.
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 24,174 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:
Alabama Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collection https://arctos.database.museum/collection/ALMNH:Inv
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Alabama Museum of Natural History. 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: ec12f461-df32-4c8a-b621-0abd1f6cdab3. Alabama Museum of Natural History publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence; Specimen
Contacts
- Metadata Provider
- Curator of Invertebrate Zoology
http://orcid.org/https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8673-2688
- Metadata Provider
- Curator of Invertebrate Zoology
Geographic Coverage
Global with particular strength in Alabama, the Gulf of Mexico, and Antarctica.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
This collection includes marine invertebrates, freshwater molluscs (especially Unionida), and terrestrial gastropods.
| Phylum | Annelida, Arthropoda, Brachiopoda, Bryozoa, Chaetognatha, Chordata, Cnidaria, Ctenophora, Echinodermata, Foraminifera, Hemichordata, Kinorhyncha, Mollusca, Nematoda, Nemertea, Ochrophyta, Phoronida, Platyhelminthes, Porifera, Sipuncula, Tardigrada, Tracheophyta, Xenacoelomorpha |
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| Class | Entoprocta |
| Genus | Cephalorhyncha |
Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | 1850 - present |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | Alabama Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology |
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| Collection Identifier | https://arctos.database.museum/collection/ALMNH:Inv |
| Parent Collection Identifier | ALMNH |
| Specimen preservation methods |
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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 | ec12f461-df32-4c8a-b621-0abd1f6cdab3 |
| https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=almnh_inv |