Author: Laura Russell
Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen, Occurrence

DMNS Marine Invertebrate Collection (Arctos)

Paula Cushing^1, David Bloom^2, John Wieczorek^3, Dusty McDonald^4, Phyllis Sharp^1, Bryan Johnson^1

1 Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Blvd., 80205-5798, Denver, United States; 2 ; 3 Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley, ; 4 University of Alaska Museum, 

Corresponding author(s): Paula Cushing (paula.cushing@dmns.org)

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Resource Citation

Denver Museum of Nature & Science Marine Invertebrate Collection

Abstract

The Denver Museum of Nature & Science Marine Invertebrate Collection dates to the early 1900s. It is a diverse collection of worldwide specimens, the largest portion being marine shells. It also has specimens of echinoderms, corals, sponges, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Despite its name, it includes a substantial collection of land and freshwater snail shells. The collection contains nearly 50,000 lots, of which more than half are databased in Arctos with more being added to the database each week. More than half of the databased lots are geolocated, and over 1,000 specimen records have images. 

Specimens in the collection represent nearly 6,000 species in over 450 families. Specimens come from over 150 countries with the majority from the United States and most of those from Florida and Hawaii.   All specimens have been donated to the Museum by shell collectors, including many self-collected specimens.

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen, Occurrence

General description

Purpose: Natural History Research and Education

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=dmns_inv

Taxonomic coverage

Taxonomic ranks
Class: Gastropoda, Bivalvia, Anthozoa, Echinoidea, Polyplacophora, Cephalopoda, Scaphopoda, Articulata, Asteroidea, Magnoliopsida, Hydrozoa, Demospongiae, Liliopsida, Rhynchonellata, Inarticulata, Merostomata, Maxillopoda, Hexactinellida

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: The Denver Museum of Nature & Science Marine Invertebrate Collection is global, with an emphasis on Hawaii, Mexico, coastal (east and west) U.S., and Australia.
Coordinates: 90°0'0''S and 90°0'0''N Latitude; 180°0'0''W and 180°0'0''E Longitude 

Living time period: 1900-present

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive DMNS Marine Invertebrate Collection (Arctos)
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.vertnet.org/archive.do?r=dmns_inv
Publication date of data: 2024-04-21
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2013-01-15
Hierarchy level: Dataset