Description
The invertebrate collection at the Ohio Wesleyan University Museum of Natural History consists of a selection of specimens from a wide range of taxa. Major collections include Pacific and Atlantic corals, gastropod and bivalve mollusc shells, and crustaceans. In addition, the collection includes a set of marine invertebrates collected by the US Fish Commission and donated by the Smithsonian Institution in 1883.
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 26 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:
Ohio Wesleyan University Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Collection
Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Ohio Wesleyan University Museum of Natural History. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: bd87a8e3-8408-4df2-a7a7-f5f405620ab8. Ohio Wesleyan University Museum of Natural History publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence; Specimen
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
Worldwide, including marine invertebrates collected by the US Fish Commission off the coast of New England, and corals and invertebrates from Australia collected by Dr. Wendell Patton.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Annelida, Arthropoda, Brachiopoda, Bryozoa, Chaetognatha, Chordata, Cnidaria, Ctenophora, Echinodermata, Hemichordata, Mollusca, Nematoda, Onychophora, Platyhelminthes, Porifera
| Phylum | Annelida, Arthropoda, Brachiopoda, Bryozoa, Chaetognatha, Chordata, Cnidaria, Ctenophora, Echinodermata, Hemichordata, Mollusca, Nematoda, Onychophora, Platyhelminthes, Porifera |
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Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | 1859-Present |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | Ohio Wesleyan University Invertebrate Specimens |
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| Collection Identifier | https://arctos.database.museum/collection/OWU:Inv |
| Parent Collection Identifier | OWU |
Additional Metadata
Arctos Data Ownership and Use: http://arctosdb.org/home/data/; http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html
| Purpose | Invertebrate reference and teaching collection |
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| Alternative Identifiers | OWMZ |
| bd87a8e3-8408-4df2-a7a7-f5f405620ab8 | |
| https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=owu_inv |