Description
The fish collection has ~2,500 lots containing 21,000 specimens preserved in isopropanol or ethanol. About half of the lots have locality and date data, and these are mainly from the marine waters of southern California, northeastern Mexico, and Mississippi, and the fresh waters of southern California.
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 2,503 records.
2 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:
California State University Long Beach Fish Collection
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is California State University, Long Beach. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: d6655666-83fc-4959-bc93-56d920238d90. California State University, Long Beach 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 ●
- Originator
- Vertebrate Collections Manager
- Point Of Contact
- Mammalogy Professer
Geographic Coverage
Mainly the marine waters of southern California, northeastern Mexico, and Mississippi, and the fresh waters of southern California.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Fishes of North America and the Eastern Central Pacific.
Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | 1931-2017 |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | California State University, Long Beach Fish specimens |
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| Collection Identifier | https://arctos.database.museum/collection/CSULB:Fish |
| Parent Collection Identifier | CSULB |
| Specimen preservation methods | Alcohol |
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Additional Metadata
Arctos Data Ownership and Use: http://arctosdb.org/home/data/; http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html
| Purpose | Teaching, research |
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| Alternative Identifiers | d6655666-83fc-4959-bc93-56d920238d90 |
| https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=csulb_fish |