University of Florida Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collection

Gustav Paulay1, Abigail Benson2, Abby Benson2

1 Florida Museum of Natural History, ; 2 U.S. Geological Survey, 

Corresponding author(s): Gustav Paulay (paulay@flmnh.ufl.edu), Abigail Benson (albenson@usgs.gov)

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Abstract

The UF Invertebrate collection holds ~580,000 databased lots of mollusks and marine invertebrates. It began as a Malacology collection almost 100 years ago and the collection is particularly strong in non-marine mollusks. Approximately ~85% of the holdings are mollusks but since 2000 the collection was expanded to cover all invertebrate phyla, focusing on marine taxa. Today it holds >40,000 species from 28 phyla and is currently available via the Integrated Publishing Toolkit and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. However, this is a subset of that data prepared for ingest by OBIS. This means that only records with geographic coordinates (lat/lon), scientific names that matched to the World Register of Marine Species, event date and not found on land were included in the subset.

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen, Occurrence

General description

Additional information: marine, harvested by iOBIS

Data published through GBIF: https://www1.usgs.gov/obis-usa/ipt/resource?r=flmnh_iz

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive University of Florida Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collection
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Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://www1.usgs.gov/obis-usa/ipt/archive.do?r=flmnh_iz
Publication date of data: 2022-03-29
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2017-02-28
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