Ohio Wesleyan University Parasite Specimens (Arctos)

Josh Pletcher1, Lisa Tabak2, Ramon Carreno1, David Bloom3, John Wieczorek3, Dusty McDonald4

1 Ohio Wesleyan University Museum of Natural History, 43015, Delaware, United States; 2 Ohio Wesleyan University Museum of Natural History, 90 S Henry St, SCSC 166, 43015, Delaware, United States; 3 VertNet, ; 4 Arctos, 

Corresponding author(s): Josh Pletcher (jrpletch@owu.edu)Lisa Tabak (lmtabak@owu.edu)

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Resource Citation

Ohio Wesleyan University Museum of Natural History Parasite Collection

Abstract

The Ohio Wesleyan University Museum of Natural History houses a parasite collection based on the personal collection of Dr. Ramon A. Carreno. Several thousand preserved helminths and arthropods, preserved in formalin or alcohol, together with hundreds of permanent slides, are included. Most specimens were collected from various projects involving centrarchid fishes, birds, mammals, and arthropods. It is anticipated that the collection will eventually be archived into the museum database and will provide both host and parasite species information along with geographical and other data.

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen, Occurrence, Specimen

General description

Purpose: Parasite research collection
Additional information: Arctos Data Ownership and Use: http://arctosdb.org/home/data/; http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html

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

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Nematoda, Platyhelminthes, among others
Taxonomic ranks
Phylum: Nematoda, Platyhelminthes

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Worldwide, including parasites from Centrarchid fishes of central Ohio
Coordinates: 90°0'0''S and 90°0'0''N Latitude; 180°0'0''W and 180°0'0''E Longitude 

Natural collections description

Parent collection identifier: OWU
Collection name: Ohio Wesleyan University Parasite Specimens
Collection identifier: https://arctos.database.museum/collection/OWU:Para
Living time period: 1970-Present

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Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Ohio Wesleyan University Parasite Specimens (Arctos)
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.vertnet.org/archive.do?r=owu_para
Publication date of data: 2024-04-15
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2021-12-14
Hierarchy level: Dataset