Description
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.
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 135,020 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
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum (BMSM)
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
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 GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Science Director & Curator
- 3075 Sanibel-Captiva Road
- +01 (239) 395-2233
- Metadata Provider
- Collection Assistant
- 3075 Sanibel-Captiva Road
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] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Phylum | Mollusca (Mollusks) |
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| 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 |
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| 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
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 417f4d21-959b-4773-90a2-c38d1822d873 |
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| https://ipt.idigbio.org/resource?r=bmnsm-shell |