Nonindigenous Aquatic Species (NAS) Database Non-freshwater Specimens

Occurrence Observation
Latest version published by United States Geological Survey on Jun 17, 2016 United States Geological Survey
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17 June 2016
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Description

This dataset contains the non-freshwater specimens from the Nonindigenous Aquatic Species (NAS) database, which was established as a central repository for spatially referenced biogeographic accounts of introduced aquatic species. The NAS program provides scientific reports, online/real-time queries, spatial data sets, regional contact lists, and general information. The data is made available for use by biologists, interagency groups, and the general public. The geographical coverage is the United States.

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 6,445 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

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Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is United States Geological Survey. 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: 6da969ce-0833-4bb6-a4e6-5013a50eefef.  United States Geological Survey publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.

Keywords

Occurrence; Observation

External data

The resource data is also available in other formats

CSDGM Metadata https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/file/get/55411752e4b0a658d793aece?f=__disk__4f%2F2b%2Fb1%2F4f2bb18d7b17f93db376fb08c437736153b30098 UTF-8 XML

Contacts

Pam Fuller
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • Biologist/Program Leader
U.S. Geological Survey
Abigail Benson
  • Metadata Provider

Geographic Coverage

United States including all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and US Virgin Islands. Future revisions to the dataset will include Guam.

Bounding Coordinates South West [8, -163], North East [62, -60]

Additional Metadata

marine, harvest by iOBIS

Alternative Identifiers https://www1.usgs.gov/obis-usa/ipt/resource?r=usgs_nas_nonfish