Description
The Collection of Marine Invertebrates consists of over 47,000 dry and fluid-preserved marine invertebrates primarily from the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. This collection was donated in 1995 by the Department of Oceanography at Texas A&M University. The majority of the specimens were collected by Research Vessels Alaminos and Gyre during the 1960’s and 1970’s. At that time, there had been relatively few biological studies conducted in the Gulf of Mexico. The studies that had been completed prior to that time were from ships unable to perform numerous deep water trawls and dredges, and no studies documented the western half of the Gulf. The new ships were able to perform such trawls and dredges and surveyed a larger portion of the Gulf than the earlier studies. Funding for much of the original collection was provided in part by Sea Grant. The collection remains the most comprehensive collection of deep sea invertebrates from the Gulf of Mexico. It is an active collection and used by systematists, undergraduates, and graduates as a resource for their studies. Dr. Mary K. Wicksten, from the Texas A&M University Biology Department, generously donates her time as curator. Although our collection is called the “Marine” Invertebrate Collection, we recently acquired a landmark collection of freshwater crayfishes from Sterling Johnson, a retiree from Texas A&M University and author of Texas Crawdads. These include vouchers for his book “Texas Crawdads” and constitute a valuable resource for conservation of rare and endemic freshwater fauna.
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 22,804 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:
Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA. (TCWC)
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Texas A&M University Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections. 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: 16b0aa56-90aa-436c-bfe8-b5af83f84575. Texas A&M University Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
marine invertebrates freshwater invertebrates; marine invertebrates; Museum specimens Voucher specimens; Occurrence; Specimen
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Geographic Coverage
Primarily from the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Phylum | Annelida, Foraminifera, Echinodermata, Hemichrodata, Brachiopoda, Sipuncula, Mollusca, Priapulida, Nematoda, Chaetognatha, Porifera, Nemertinae, Chordata, Echiura, Nemertinea, Nemertea, Phoronida, Chateognatha, Ectoprocta, Echiura, Arthropoda, Bryozoa, Ctenophora, Priapula, Cnidaria, Phoronidea, Sipunculida, Chrodata, Nematomorpha, Hemichordata, Echiuroidea, Platyhelminthes |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections |
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The personnel involved in the project:
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Additional Metadata
In most cases geospatial data are available for specimens in our collection. To request more detailed locality information please contact us.
| Alternative Identifiers | 16b0aa56-90aa-436c-bfe8-b5af83f84575 |
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