LACM Malacology

Occurrence
Version 1.13 published by Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County on Mar 6, 2024 Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

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Description

The James H. McLean Mollusk Collection of the LACM Malacology Department is one of the largest recent mollusk collections in North America and the world … and is the largest of its kind on the Pacific Rim. The collection is predominantly dry material with lesser amounts of wet preserved specimens and includes material from all molluscan classes. It is worldwide in scope with an emphasis on the eastern Pacific Ocean (arctic Alaska to southern Chile) and includes an estimated 500,000 lots containing approximately 4.5 million specimens. Over 120,000 lots have been electronically captured, which includes over 2,300 type lots. Renowned acquired collections include those from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the Alan Hancock Foundation at the University of Southern California (USC).

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 129,679 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)
129679
Multimedia 
70

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Versions

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How to cite

Please be aware, this is an old version of the dataset.  Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Groves L, Mertz W (2024): LACM Malacology. v1.13. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Dataset/Occurrence. https://ipt.idigbio.org/resource?r=lacm-mollusks&v=1.13

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. 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: ec0ad39f-3370-4d51-a663-cb27abd2a6bb.  Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence

Contacts

Lindsey Groves
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Collection Manager
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
  • 900 W Exposition Blvd
90007 Los Angeles
CA
US
William Mertz
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Database Manager
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
  • 900 W Exposition Blvd
90007 Los Angeles
CA
US
Erica Krimmel

Geographic Coverage

The James H. McLean Mollusk Collection is worldwide in scope with an emphasis on the eastern Pacific Ocean (arctic Alaska to southern Chile).

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

The James H. McLean Mollusk Collection of the LACM Malacology Department includes material from all molluscan classes.

Phylum Mollusca (mollusks)

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers ec0ad39f-3370-4d51-a663-cb27abd2a6bb
https://ipt.idigbio.org/resource?r=lacm-mollusks