Description
The Collection includes the Fish, Herpetology, Bird and Mammal Collections of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. They are worldwide collections with greatest concentration in North and South America, Africa, the Pacific Ocean, and the Antarctic.
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 597,019 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.
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: 7a25f7aa-03fb-4322-aaeb-66719e1a9527. 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
Specimen; Occurrence; Occurrence
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
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- Database & Reports Manager
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- +01 213 763 3374
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- Curator
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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0599-9699
- Originator ●
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- Collections Manager
- 900 Exposition Blvd
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- Collections Manager
- 900 Exposition Blvd
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Collections Manager
- 900 Exposition Blvd
- Point Of Contact
- Collections Manager
- 900 Exposition Blvd
- Point Of Contact
- Collection Manager - Birds
- 900 Exposition Blvd.
- 213-763-3368
- Point Of Contact
- Collections Manager - Herpetology
- 900 Exposition Blvd.
- +01 213 763 3371
- Point Of Contact
- Collections Manager - Mammalogy
- 900 Exposition Blvd.
- +01 213 763 3400
Geographic Coverage
A worldwide collection with greatest concentration in North and South America, Africa, the Pacific Ocean, and the Antarctic.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Modern Chordata
| Superclass | Osteichthyes, Chondrichthyes |
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| Class | Aves, Mammalia, Amphibia, Reptilia |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1790-01-01 / 2021-08-31 |
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Additional Metadata
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| Alternative Identifiers | 7a25f7aa-03fb-4322-aaeb-66719e1a9527 |
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| https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=lacm_verts |