Description
The State of Alabama contains the most diverse fish fauna of North America. The University of Alabama Ichthyological Collection (UAIC) documents this diversity and is one of the largest educational and research collections of fishes in the southeastern United States. This nationally and internationally recognized biological resource includes over one million preserved, skeletal, and frozen specimens, some dating back to the mid 1900's, and is the best single resource documenting past and present distributions and abundances of fishes in the State.
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 126,702 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:
University of Alabama Ichthyological Collection (UAIC)
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Alabama Biodiversity and Systematics. 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: e90a588b-0eed-4077-8a4f-7e61da35b3f8. University of Alabama Biodiversity and Systematics publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Coordinator of Zoological Collections
- Department of Biological Sciences, 403 Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
- +01 205-348-1822
- Curator
- Associate Professor and Curator of Fishes
- Department of Biological Sciences, 407 Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
- +01 205-348-1831
Geographic Coverage
While the primary emphasis of UAIC has been to serve in the study and documentation of Alabama freshwater and marine fishes, the collection contains much more diversity. A significant number of fish species inhabiting aquatic ecosystems from other areas in North America are represented in the collection, as well as collections from Central and South America, Europe, and Asia.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Most taxa are from the Southeastern United States, but good holdings exist from other localities both foreign and domestic.
| Class | Actinopterygii, Chondrichthyes, Sarcopterygii, Myxini |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | University of Alabama Ichthyology Collection |
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| Collection Identifier | UAIC |
| Parent Collection Identifier | UAIC |
| Specimen preservation methods | Alcohol |
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Additional Metadata
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| Alternative Identifiers | e90a588b-0eed-4077-8a4f-7e61da35b3f8 |
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| http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=uaic_fish |