Description
The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences' Ichthyology Collection contains approximately 1.3 million specimens (110,000+ lots). It is one of the largest and most complete regional collections in the United States and currently meets the criteria of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists for recognition as a National Center Ichthyological Collection. Founded in the late 1800s, the collection consists of approximately 75% North Carolina material, although 48 states, 42 countries, and more than 1948 species are represented. Important recent acquisitions include large collections from Duke, North Carolina State, Stockton State, and Western Carolina universities, Mars Hill College, and the University of North Carolina’s Institute of Marine Sciences. The collection houses fluid-preserved specimens, cleared and stained material, skeletons, tissues for molecular analyses, and all supporting legacy data.
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 92,562 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:
Hogue G, Hughes L, Norton B (2014): NCSM Ichthyology Collection. North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences. Dataset/Occurrence. https://doi.org/10.36102/dwc.1.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences. 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: 2a79f202-3f3a-4d54-88fa-09aa8de1ac73. North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences 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
- Head of Technology
- 11 West Jones Street
- 919-707-9947
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Collections Manager of Fishes
- 11 West Jones Street
- 919-707-8868
Geographic Coverage
The geographic coverage of the Ichthyology Collection covers 61 countries on 6 continents and 3 major oceans.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Kingdom | Animalia |
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| Phylum | Chordata |
| Class | Actinopterygii, Chondrichthyes, Petromyzontida, Myxini, Sarcopterygii, Leptocardii |
| Order | Alepocephaliformes, Acipenseriformes, Albuliformes, Amiiformes, Amphioxiformes, Anguilliformes, Aphredoderiformes, Argentiniformes, Ateleopodiformes, Atheriniformes, Aulopiformes, Batrachoidiformes, Beloniformes, Beryciformes, Carcharhiniformes, Ceratodontiformes, Characiformes, Chimaeriformes, Clupeiformes, Cypriniformes, Cyprinodontiformes, Echinorhiniformes, Elopiformes, Esociformes, Gadiformes, Gasterosteiformes, Gonorynchiformes, Gymnotiformes, Heterodontiformes, Hexanchiformes, Hiodontiformes, Lamniformes, Lampriformes, Lepisosteiformes, Lophiiformes, Mugiliformes, Myctophiformes, Myliobatiformes, Myxiniformes, Notacanthiformes, Ophidiiformes, Orectolobiformes, Osmeriformes, Osteoglossiformes, Perciformes, Percopsiformes, Petromyzontiformes, Pleuronectiformes, Polymixiiformes, Pristiformes, Rajiformes, Saccopharyngiformes, Salmoniformes, Scorpaeniformes, Siluriformes, Squaliformes, Squatiniformes, Stephanoberyciformes, Stomiiformes, Synbranchiformes, Tetraodontiformes, Torpediniformes, Zeiformes |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1850-01-01 / 2021-12-01 |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | Ichthyology Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences |
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| Collection Identifier | NCSM-Fishes |
| Parent Collection Identifier | Not applicable |
Additional Metadata
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| Alternative Identifiers | 2a79f202-3f3a-4d54-88fa-09aa8de1ac73 |
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| http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=ncsm_fishes |