Description
The collection of fishes is the largest and fastest growing of the collections in the SLU Vertebrate Museum. We have over 8,000 lots of fishes, containing some 85,000 specimens. Our holdings are rich in native species from southern Louisiana (particularly the Florida Parishes and the Lake Pontchartrain Basin) and adjacent regions. Additionally, we have large collections of freshwater fishes from Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize. In addition to the fluid specimens, we have over 2,000 archived tissue samples from fishes for genetic analyses. Most of the tissue samples have corresponding voucher specimens archived in the 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 8,925 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.
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Piller K (2017). Southeastern Louisiana University Herpetology Collection. Southeastern Louisiana University Vertebrate Museum. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/2xdxei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-02-01.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Southeastern Louisiana University Vertebrate Museum. 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: 6a901195-ee9a-43ad-a43d-9095fd2aab0c. Southeastern Louisiana University Vertebrate Museum publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Occurrence
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Geographic Coverage
The collection of fishes is the largest and fastest growing of the collections in the SLU Vertebrate Museum. We have over 8,000 lots of fishes, containing some 85,000 specimens. Our holdings are rich in native species from southern Louisiana (particularly the Florida Parishes and the Lake Pontchartrain Basin) and adjacent regions. Additionally, we have large collections of freshwater fishes from Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize. In addition to the fluid specimens, we have over 2,000 archived tissue samples from fishes for genetic analyses. Most of the tissue samples have corresponding voucher specimens archived in the collection.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
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| Class | Actinopterigii (Ray-finned fishes), Chondrichthyes (Cartilaginous fishes), Leptocardii (Lancelets), Myxini (Hagfishes) |
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| Family | Petromyzontidae (Lampreys) |
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| Alternative Identifiers | http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=slu_ichthyology |
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