Description
The APSU David Snyder Museum of Zoology (DSMZ) houses a rapidly growing, research quality collection of over 6,200 lots and 42,000 specimens of fishes from the Mid-south Region. The majority of specimens are from Tennessee, Kentucky and surrounding states, encompassing the most diverse fish faunas of the US. In 2016, APSU acquired the Tennessee collections of the SIUC Fish Collection. This acquisition greatly expanded the diversity and size of our holdings and provided a home for the abandoned SIUC collection. Additionally, the APSU fish collection is a repository of specimens for the Tennessee Valley Authority and Kentucky Division of Wildlife Resources, other state agencies, and researchers.
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 6,187 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:
David H. Snyder Museum of Zoology Ichthyological Collection. Individual specimens should be cited as APSU:Fish: followed by the integer catalog number.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Austin Peay State University Natural History Collections. 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: caff29b9-5038-40ae-b373-b454cc89be19. Austin Peay State University Natural History Collections publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence; Specimen
Contacts
- Curator ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Curator of Collections
- P.O. Box 4718
- 931-221-7774
http://orcid.org/https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6440-7112
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Manager of Collections
- P.O. Box 4718
Geographic Coverage
Mid-south region of the United States. The majority of specimens are from Tennessee, Kentucky and surrounding states.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [29.917, -93.252], North East [47.22, -70.225] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Fishes
| Class | Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes), Petromyzontida (lamprey), Chondrichthys (cartilaginous fishes) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | 1939-current |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | Austin Peay State University Fish specimens |
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| Collection Identifier | https://arctos.database.museum/collection/APSU:Fish |
| Parent Collection Identifier | APSU |
| Specimen preservation methods | Formalin, Alcohol, Glycerin |
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Additional Metadata
Arctos Data Ownership and Use: http://arctosdb.org/home/data/; http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html
| Purpose | Students have been engaged in collection science and research through the DSMZ and its curators since its inception and these libraries play a valuable role in teaching, research, and outreach for APSU, the broader scientific community, and the general public. |
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| Maintenance Description | When there is funding for a collections manager or a collections assistant (graduate student) the collection data is regularly maintained with any new incoming records being processed and cataloged as quickly as possible by collection staff. In the absence of funding, the data are maintained as regularly as possible on the good will of experienced volunteers. |
| Alternative Identifiers | caff29b9-5038-40ae-b373-b454cc89be19 |
| https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=apsu_fish |