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National Museum of Natural History Vertebrate Zoology Fishes Collections
Citation
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution NMNH Fishes Collection Database. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 10th and Constitution Ave. N.W., Washington, DC 20560-0193, 2007. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/1984
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Archived data
Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Description
The online Fish Collection database includes all relevant information for each cataloged lot of specimens. Please note that slightly over 50% of the holdings are presently listed and records are constantly added. Data included in the Locality field are directly from a collector's field notes or from cruise logs. Geographic retrieval fields added by cataloging staff are based on internally defined criteria and may not be geographically accurate.
Lineage
Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output
Scope
Themes:
Biology > Fish
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, Museum collections, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, World Oceans
Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -44,9083; MinLat: 26 - MaxLong: 61,8; MaxLat: 80,2 [WGS84]
World Oceans [Marine Regions]
Contributors
Smithsonian Institution; National Museum of Natural History (NMNM), more, data owner, collection manager
Williams, Jeff
Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
OBIS-USA: US Ocean Biodiversity Informaton System, more
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Dataset information:
Other:
Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Museum collection
Release date: 2009-05-29
Metadatarecord created: 2009-06-09
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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