Invertebrates of the Gothenburg Natural History Museum (GNM)

Occurrence
Latest version published by Gothenburg Natural History Museum (GNM) on Mar 23, 2023 Gothenburg Natural History Museum (GNM)
Publication date:
23 March 2023
License:
CC0 1.0

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Description

This database contains specimens of invertebrates from the Gothenburg natural history museum, collected from the early 1800´s to the present. New specimens are added continuously. The main bulk of the collection consists of ethanol-preserved specimens of marine benthic invertebrates (notably L.A. Jägerskiölds marine survey 1921-1938 and the Swedish Taxonomy Initiative´s marine survey 2004-2009), parasitic worms from the Swedish west coast (notably collections from Peter Olsson and Orvar Nybelin) and dry mollusc shells. However, there are both wet and dry preserved specimens of a wide array of taxa from the entire world.

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 46,710 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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Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Gothenburg Natural History Museum (GNM). 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: be07e8c1-0d79-4e39-9697-2a9ec687f8f8.  Gothenburg Natural History Museum (GNM) publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Sweden.

Keywords

Occurrence; Occurrence

Contacts

Christian Bohm
  • Originator
System administrator
Natural History Museum
Göteborg
SE
Charlotte Jonsson
  • Metadata Provider
  • Point Of Contact
Administrator
Gothenburg Natural History Museum
Gothenburg
SE

Geographic Coverage

The collection consists of specimens from the entire globe, but with main focus on the southwest region of Sweden with the Skagerrak and Kattegatt seas.

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

Taxonomic Coverage

Foraminiferan protista and all Metazoa, except Vertebrata, Hexapoda, Myriapoda, Arachnida, Pulmonata and various terrestrial Gastropoda.

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Foraminifera, Mollusca, Annelida, Echinodermata, Arthropoda

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers be07e8c1-0d79-4e39-9697-2a9ec687f8f8
https://www.gbif.se/ipt/resource?r=gnm-everte