Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History - Invertebrate Zoology

Occurrence
Latest version published by Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History on Nov 26, 2024 Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Publication date:
26 November 2024
License:
CC-BY-NC 4.0

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Description

The Invertebrate Zoology collection at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (SBMNH) houses 2.5 million specimens of several invertebrate taxa from worldwide localities. The collection specializes in phylum Mollusca, from both marine and terrestrial habitats. Roughly 20% of the collection is currently cataloged and available online. Please inquire further about groups that may be of interest, but are not found when searching our collection digitally.

Data Records

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Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: a004778c-d113-479e-a77f-990041283a51.  Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence

Contacts

Henry Chaney
  • Originator
  • Curator of Malacology
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Daniel Geiger
  • Originator
  • Curator of Malacology
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Vanessa Delnavaz
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Invertebrate Zoology Collection Manager
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
  • 2559 Puesta del Sol
93105 Santa Barbara
California
US
  • 8056824711
Cat Chapman

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers a004778c-d113-479e-a77f-990041283a51
https://ipt.idigbio.org/resource?r=sbmnh-iz