Description
The permanent collection of fishes includes more than 350,000 specimens, with representatives of most major groups (orders and families) of living fishes in the world.
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 18,699 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:
LSUMZ Fishes Collection
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science. 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: 8a1073ce-54a4-4712-89a6-e14d82836d9e. Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen
Contacts
- Point Of Contact
- Curator
- 119 Foster Hall
- +01 225-578-3079
- Point Of Contact
- Assoicate Curator
- 119 Foster Hall
- +01 225-578-3079
Geographic Coverage
The holdings include many specimens from the northern Gulf of Mexico, but there are important collections from the Hawaiian Islands, Mexico, Central and South America, Vietnam, Taiwan, Australia, and many other places around the Indo-West Pacific.
Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Additional Metadata
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Alternative Identifiers | 8a1073ce-54a4-4712-89a6-e14d82836d9e |
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http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=lsumz_fishes |