Description
The Fish Collection at the Auburn University Museum of Natural History has fishes from all over the world. The collection has particularly large holdings of fishes from the Southeastern US and South America. Approximately 750,000 preserved specimens in more than 72,000 lots are cataloged in the collection.
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 71,716 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.
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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How to cite
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Auburn University Museum of Natural History Fishes Collection
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GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: d499aef2-b1d9-4890-aeb3-5f0d1237b513. Auburn University Museum publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Specimen; Occurrence; Occurrence
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Curator
Geographic Coverage
Particularly strong are collections from all over Alabama and Georgia. Also included are specimens of most fish species of the United States and a significant collection of marine fishes from the Gulf of Mexico. The fish collection also includes a strong Neotropical fish collection from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Guyana, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela. There are also significant collections from Africa and Southeast Asia.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
All ichthyological specimens are identified to family, genus and/or species.
| Class | Myxini, Petromyzonti, Cladistii, Elasmobranchii, Holocephali, Actinopterygii, Sarcopterygii |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | AUM Fish Collection |
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| Collection Identifier | AUM-F |
| Parent Collection Identifier | Auburn University Museum of Natural History |
| Specimen preservation methods | Alcohol |
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| Curatorial Units | Between 60,000 and 70,000 Lots |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | d499aef2-b1d9-4890-aeb3-5f0d1237b513 |
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| https://ipt.idigbio.org/resource?r=aum-fishes |