Occurrence

BMSM Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum

Latest version published by Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum on 12 July 2023 Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum
Part of The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum's mission is to promote collection-based research on shells and mollusks, with emphasis on Southwest Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. The Shell Museum assists scholars and citizen scientists from around the world by answering questions, providing interlibrary loans, and by offering both physical and Web access to our extensive shell collection, when needed. Our Science Director, Dr. José H. Leal, is a leading malacologist and also the Editor-in-Chief of The Nautilus, a peer-reviewed journal publishing articles on diverse aspects of the biology, ecology, and systematics of mollusks.
Publication date:
12 July 2023
License:
CC0 1.0

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 134,458 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

  • Occurrence (core)
    134458
  • Multimedia 
    3309

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Versions

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How to cite

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Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum (BMSM)

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum. 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: 417f4d21-959b-4773-90a2-c38d1822d873.  Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by U.S. Geological Survey.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence

Contacts

Who created the resource:

José Leal
Science Director & Curator
The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum
3075 Sanibel-Captiva Road
33957 Sanibel
Florida
US
+01 (239) 395-2233
http://www.shellmuseum.org

Who can answer questions about the resource:

José Leal
Science Director & Curator
The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum
3075 Sanibel-Captiva Road
33957 Sanibel
Florida
US
+01 (239) 395-2233
http://www.shellmuseum.org

Who filled in the metadata:

José Leal
Science Director & Curator
The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum
3075 Sanibel-Captiva Road
33957 Sanibel
Florida
US
+01 (239) 395-2233
http://www.shellmuseum.org
Haley Kraczek
Collection Assistant
The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum
3075 Sanibel-Captiva Road
33957 Sanibel
Florida
US
http://www.shellmuseum.org

Who else was associated with the resource:

Programmer
Joanna McCaffrey
Biodiversity Informatics Manager

Geographic Coverage

Southwest Florida, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, western Atlantic

Bounding Coordinates South West [15.08, -98.59], North East [36.2, -63.48]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Phylum  Mollusca (Mollusks)
Class  Gastropoda,  Polyplacophora,  Bivalvia,  Scaphopoda,  Cephalopoda

Project Data

The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum Cataloging Project was initially funded by two Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grants (2012, 2015), complemented by another IMLS grant (“Digital Imaging Project”, 2018) and the current Thematic Collections Network project “Mobilizing Millions of Mollusks of the Eastern Seaboard” funded by the National Science Foundation. The long-range digitization project objective is to, keeping pace of acquisition of collection material, digitally catalog, georeferenced, and illustrate the Museum’s specialized collection of shells, preserved mollusks, and other related biological materials (egg capsules, opercula, etc.).

Title The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum Cataloguing Project
Identifier IMLS MA 05-12-0450-12, IMLS MA 30-15-0276-15, IMLS MA-30-18-0438-18, NSF 2001528

The personnel involved in the project:

Principal Investigator
José H. Leal

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 417f4d21-959b-4773-90a2-c38d1822d873
https://ipt.idigbio.org/resource?r=bmnsm-shell