Description
The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences’ Non-molluscan Invertebrates Collection houses well over 1 million specimens representing more than 20 phyla. With lots dating from the 1850s to present, the Collection reflects over century and a half of collecting in freshwater, terrestrial, and marine habitats of the Carolinas, Mid-Atlantic Region, southeastern USA, and beyond. It includes one of the largest collections of freshwater crayfish in, and of, the southeastern USA, and a substantial and internationally significant myriapod collection. Additionally, numerous acquisitions of marine invertebrate collections from other regional institutions contributes to our status as one of the largest and most historically important collections of marine invertebrates in the Mid-Atlantic region. For easy reference, marine collections we have acquired come from the following institutions: Charleston Museum, Duke Marine Lab, University of North Carolina Institute of Marine Sciences, Southeastern Regional Taxonomic Center, and NOAA National Benthic Inventory (voucher specimens). We also have the University of Nebraska State Museum marine invertebrates collection.
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 31,878 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.
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:
McCuller M, Williams B (2024). NCSM Non-molluscan Invertebrates Collection. Version 1.7. North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences. Occurrence dataset. 10.36102/dwc.8
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: 96cdea48-b78a-4345-ae6d-b2c7c6e0278a. North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by U.S. Geological Survey.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence
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Geographic Coverage
The Non-molluscan Invertebrates Collection covers 50 countries across all seven continents.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Phylum | Annelida, Arthropoda, Brachiopoda, Bryozoa, Chaetognatha, Chordata, Cnidaria, Ctenophora, Echinodermata, Entoprocta, Hemichordata, Kinorhyncha, Nematoda, Nematomorpha, Nemertea, Onychophora, Phoronida, Platyhelminthes, Porifera, Priapulida, Mollusca |
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Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | 1855-present |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | Non-molluscan Invertebrates Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences |
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| Collection Identifier | NCSM-NMI |
| Parent Collection Identifier | Not applicable |
| Specimen preservation methods | Alcohol, Dried |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 96cdea48-b78a-4345-ae6d-b2c7c6e0278a |
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| 10.36102/dwc.8 | |
| https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=ncsm_nmi |