Description
Collection of fishes at Iowa State University, Ames, IA; ~5,000 lots, primarily from Iowa but including small numbers of lots other areas; e.g., CA, DE, FL, MI, MO, NH & MX. Collection was started in the late 1930s by Reeve M. Bailey during his time at Iowa State from 1939-1944. Most lots are from the 1930s and 1940s, but significant numbers are from the 1980s and 2010s.
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 5,562 records.
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:
Iowa State University Museum of Natural History Fishes Collection
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Iowa State University Museum of Natural History. 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: ee21cfcd-9f34-47f0-ab46-9b21e9db5c5a. Iowa State University 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
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Collection volunteer
- 1222 SW 3rd St
- 515-229-6290
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Curator
Geographic Coverage
Fishes of Iowa; also including >= 20 lots from the following: CA (22), DE (26), FL (35), MI (45), MO (24), NH (87), VA (20). Limited numbers of lots from 23 additional U.S. states, three states in Mexico, Argentina, Trinidad and Tobago, and one province in Japan.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [24.046, -124.805], North East [49.838, -66.094] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Class | Actinopterygii, Hyperoartia, Petromyzontida |
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Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | 1930 - Present |
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Additional Metadata
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| Alternative Identifiers | ee21cfcd-9f34-47f0-ab46-9b21e9db5c5a |
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| https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=isua_fishes |