LSUMZ (LSU MNS) Fishes Collection

Occurrence
Latest version published by Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science on Oct 11, 2019 Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science

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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

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Versions

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How to cite

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LSUMZ Fishes Collection

Rights

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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

Prosanta Chakrabarty
  • Point Of Contact
Curator
Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science
119 Foster Hall
70803 Baton Rouge
LA
US
+01 225-578-3079
Prosanta Chakrabarty
  • Point Of Contact
Assoicate Curator
Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science
119 Foster Hall
70803 Baton Rouge
LA
US
+01 225-578-3079
Laura Russell
  • Programmer
VertNet Programmer
David Bloom
  • Programmer
VertNet Coordinator
John Wieczorek
  • Programmer
Information Architect
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley

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]

Additional Metadata

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Alternative Identifiers 8a1073ce-54a4-4712-89a6-e14d82836d9e
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