UCM Fish Collection (Arctos)

Data as a DwC-A file	download 2,365 records in English (649 KB) - Update frequency: daily
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Description

The UCM fish collection is primarily preserved in fluid, with some osteological and dried specimens. It contains over 24,000 specimens in roughly 2.365 lots. The majority were collected in Colorado, although there is a worldwide coverage of both marine and freshwater species. Many specimens were collected in the early 1900s by Max M. Ellis, including several hundred from Guyana in the headwaters of the Amazon river. The collection also includes about 2000 Salmonid specimens donated by Robert J. Behnke, Colorado State University Professor Emeritus and the author of Trout and Salmon of North America. Nearly 10% of our holdings are representatives of endangered and threatened species.

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 3,551 records.

2 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.

3551

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

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How to cite

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University of Colorado Museum of Natural History Fishes Collection

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GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 8934ad0c-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.