Description
The NMMNHS Mollusc collection was started by the donation of the Ostheimer Collection when the museum opened. The collection also includes a land snail collection from Dr. Rick Smartt and various smaller collections from donors, volunteers and staff. The Mollusc collection has around 15,000 specimens, with the majority in the dry collection. Many of the specimens are from the Southwestern US, but the majority represents the Mollusca biodiversity from the Pacific-Indian Oceans.
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 10,703 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:
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Invertebrate Collection (Arctos)
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is New Mexico Museum of Natural History and 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: fc65374a-64af-4131-9c4e-e206945ac0b3. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science 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 ●
- Point Of Contact
- BioScience Collection Manager
- 1801 Mountain Rd
Geographic Coverage
Focused on the Southwestern US with specimens from the Pacific and Indian oceans.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Phylum | Mollusca, Amoebozoa, Arthropoda, Brachiopoda, Bryozoa, Chordata, Cnidaria, Echinodermata |
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Temporal Coverage
| Formation Period | 1950-current |
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Additional Metadata
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| Alternative Identifiers | fc65374a-64af-4131-9c4e-e206945ac0b3 |
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| https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=nmmnh_inv |