LACM Malacology

Lindsey Groves1, William Mertz1, Erica Krimmel2

1 Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 W Exposition Blvd, 90007, Los Angeles, United States; 2 

Corresponding author(s): Lindsey Groves (lgroves@nhm.org)William Mertz (wmertz@nhm.org)

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Resource Citation

Groves L, Mertz W (2022): LACM Malacology. v1.2. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Dataset/Occurrence. https://ipt.idigbio.org/resource?r=lacm-mollusks&v=1.2

Abstract

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).

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen, Occurrence

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.idigbio.org/resource?r=lacm-mollusks

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: The James H. McLean Mollusk Collection of the LACM Malacology Department includes material from all molluscan classes.
Taxonomic ranks
Phylum: Mollusca
Common names: mollusks

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: The James H. McLean Mollusk Collection is worldwide in scope with an emphasis on the eastern Pacific Ocean (arctic Alaska to southern Chile).
Coordinates: 90°0'0''S and 90°0'0''N Latitude; 180°0'0''W and 180°0'0''E Longitude 

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive LACM Malacology
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.idigbio.org/archive.do?r=lacm-mollusks
Publication date of data: 2022-03-01
Language: English
Licences of use: Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2019-04-18
Hierarchy level: Dataset