Invertebrates Collection of the Swedish Museum of Natural History

Occurrence
Latest version published by Swedish Museum of Natural History on Mar 17, 2023 Swedish Museum of Natural History
Publication date:
17 March 2023
License:
CC0 1.0

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Description

The invertebrate collections (excluding insects) at the Swedish Museum of Natural History house over 500000 lots in ethanol, dry and on microscope slides. Mollusca constitute more than half of the collections. The geographic scope is worldwide, with a good representation of the Swedish fauna. In 2015, about 30% of the collections have been digitized. Type material is represented in a separate dataset. For further information and contact see http://www.nrm.se/english/researchandcollections/zoology/collections/invertebrates.305_en.html

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 144,765 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

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Stöhr S (2023). Invertebrates Collection of the Swedish Museum of Natural History. Version 6.4. Swedish Museum of Natural History. Occurrence dataset. https://www.gbif.se/ipt/resource?r=nrm-invertebrates&v=6.4

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Swedish Museum of Natural History. 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: 56aa0680-0c60-11dd-84cd-b8a03c50a862.  Swedish Museum of Natural History publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Sweden.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence

Contacts

Sabine Stöhr
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Database manager / Curator
Swedish Museum of Natural History
Stockholm
SE
Veronika Johansson
  • Point Of Contact
Node manager
Swedish Museum of Natural History
Stockholm
SE

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 56aa0680-0c60-11dd-84cd-b8a03c50a862
https://www.gbif.se/ipt/resource?r=nrm-invertebrates