Lund University Biological Museum - Zoological collections (MZLU)

Occurrence
Latest version published by Lund University Biological Museum on Apr 22, 2024 Lund University Biological Museum

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Description

This database contains information on birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates, except insects, from the Zoological Collections in the Museum of Biology of Lund, Sweden.

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 270,678 records.

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:

Ekström J (2024). Lund University Biological Museum - Zoological collections (MZLU). Version 353.423. Lund University Biological Museum. Occurrence dataset. https://www.gbif.se/ipt/resource?r=mzlu&v=353.423

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Lund University Biological Museum. 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: 427a6290-0c65-11dd-84d2-b8a03c50a862.  Lund University Biological Museum publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Sweden.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

Jonas Ekström
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
Curator
Biological museum, Lund University
SE
Maria Mostadius
  • Point Of Contact
Curator
Biological museum, Lund University
SE
Veronika Johansson
  • User
Node manager
Swedish Museum of Natural History
SE

Geographic Coverage

Specimens from all over the world.. 68% of the material from the Nordic countries (Denmark,Sweden,Norway,Finland and Iceland).

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

Taxonomic Coverage

Animal groups except insects.

Kingdom Animalia (Animal)

Temporal Coverage

Formation Period 1735-current

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 427a6290-0c65-11dd-84d2-b8a03c50a862
https://www.gbif.se/ipt/resource?r=mzlu