R/V Searcher Expedition

Sampling event Specimen
Latest version published by Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County on Nov 19, 2025 Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Publication date:
19 November 2025
License:
CC0 1.0

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Description

This collection contains mostly Crustacea collected from northern California to Costa Rica between 1971–1972.

Data Records

The data in this sampling event 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 180 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.

Event (core)
180
Occurrence 
583

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:

Wetzer R, Westover V, Wall J, Wall A, Pentcheff N D, Omura K, Haymaker C, Barve V (2025). R/V Searcher Expedition. Version 1.4. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Samplingevent dataset. https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=lacm_searcher&v=1.4

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. 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: af01e1e3-fcf3-4c55-be51-35a345b42726.  Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

Regina Wetzer
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • Curator and Director Marine Biodiversity Center
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
  • 900 Exposition Boulevard
90007 Los Angeles
California
US
  • +1-213-763-3386
Victoria Westover
  • Originator
  • Senior Coordinator, DigIn Digitization
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
  • 900 Exposition Boulevard
90007 Los Angeles
California
US
Jenessa Wall
  • Originator
  • DigIn Specialist and Collections Manager
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
  • 900 Exposition Boulevard
90007 Los Angeles
California
US
Adam Wall
  • Originator
  • Collections Manager, Crustacea
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
  • 900 Exposition Boulevard
90007 Los Angeles
California
US
N. Dean Pentcheff
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Originator
  • DISCO Project Manager
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
  • 900 Exposition Boulevard
90007 Los Angeles
California
US
Kathy Omura
  • Originator
  • Senior Collections Manager, Marine Biodiversity Center
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
  • 900 Exposition Boulevard
90007 Los Angeles
California
US
  • +1-213-763-3386
Caroline Haymaker
  • Originator
  • Associate Collections Manager
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
  • 900 Exposition Boulevard
90007 Los Angeles
California
US
Vijay Barve
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Originator
  • Digitization Project Manager
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
  • 900 Exposition Boulevard
90007 Los Angeles
California
US

Geographic Coverage

California to Costa Rica

Bounding Coordinates South West [5.519, -124.533], North East [41.258, -83.213]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda, Porifera, Annelida, Chordata
Class Ostracoda, Thecostraca, Polychaeta, Copepoda, Pycnogonida, Branchiopoda, Malacostraca, Teleostei
Order Elopiformes, Amphipoda, Calanoida, Decapoda, Mysida, Stomatopoda, Pantopoda, Phyllodocida, Balanomorpha, Scalpellomorpha, Acanthuriformes, Euphausiacea, Anostraca, Sipuncula, Isopoda
Family Leucosiidae, Dynomenidae, Inachidae, Pinnotheridae, Raninidae, Xanthidae, Pseudorhombilidae, Ethusidae, Trapeziidae, Cyclodorippidae, Panopeidae, Ocypodidae, Diogenidae, Sicyoniidae, Janiridae, Megalopidae, Penaeidae, Pandalidae, Hippidae, Paguridae, Lysmatidae, Mysidae, Parthenopidae, Parthenopeidae, Balanidae, Oregoniidae, Nymphonidae, Cymothoidae, Chirocephalidae, Aethridae, Thoridae, Hemisquillidae, Calappidae, Benthesicymidae, Gammaridae, Portunidae, Crangonidae, Polynoidae, Euphausiidae, Sergestidae, Cystisomatidae, Pilumnidae, Palaemonidae, Squillidae, Oziidae, Caprellidae, Porcellanidae, Acanthuridae, Varunidae, Lithodidae, Alpheidae, Munididae, Dairidae, Inachoididae, Scalpellidae, Dromiidae, Xylopaguridae, Palinuridae, Epialtidae, Majidae, Grapsidae, Acartiidae, Mithracidae, Gecarcinidae

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1971-01-27 / 1972-04-05

Project Data

No Description available

Title DigInTCN
Identifier DigInTCN

The personnel involved in the project:

Regina Wetzer
  • Principal Investigator

Additional Metadata