Vertebrates of the Gothenburg Natural History Museum (GNM)

Occurrence Specimen
Latest version published by Gothenburg Natural History Museum (GNM) on Jan 25, 2026 Gothenburg Natural History Museum (GNM)
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Publication date:
25 January 2026
License:
CC0 1.0

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Description

This database contains specimens of vertebrates from the Gothenburg Natural History Museum, collected from the early 1800's to present. New specimens are added continuously. Most of the birds and mammals are preserved as skins, while most fishes, amphibians and reptiles are preserved in alcohol. There are however, both wet and dry preserved specimens of a wide array of taxa from the entire world. The collections also include eggs and skeletons. The collection contains in total slightly less than 63 000 specimens, of which about half are birds. Fishes, amphibians & reptiles, and mammals are represented by roughly 10 000 specimens each. The bone collection contains about 18 000 skeletons, and the egg collection approximately 10 000 broods of which more than 1000 includes egg from common cuckoo, Cuculus canorus.

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 73,316 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Occurrence (core)
73316
Multimedia 
1276

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:

Isenvadh C, Jonsson C (2026). Vertebrates of the Gothenburg Natural History Museum (GNM). Version 4.15. Gothenburg Natural History Museum (GNM). Occurrence dataset. https://www.gbif.se/ipt/resource?r=gnm-verte&v=4.15

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: ed3dff78-fb73-4b77-909a-b78f9ef78d34.  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; Specimen

Contacts

Christian Isenvadh
  • ●
  • Originator
  • System administrator
Gothenburg 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.

Bounding Coordinates South West [-37.92, -78.172], North East [72.17, 88]

Taxonomic Coverage

Pisces, Amphibia, Reptilia, Aves and Mammalia.

Kingdom Uploaded, Animalia
Phylum Uploaded, Chordata
Class Agnatha, Chondrichthyes, Acanthodii, Myxini, Aves, Reptilia, Leptocardii, Perciformes, Mammalia, Anaspida, Amphibia, Sarcopterygii, Synapsida, Chondrichtyes, Osteostraci, Pteraspidomorphi, Cyclostomata, Actinopterygii, Placodermi, Reptiia, Osteichthyes, Cephalaspidomorphi

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1037-06-30 / 2915-06-04

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers ed3dff78-fb73-4b77-909a-b78f9ef78d34
https://www.gbif.se/ipt/resource?r=gnm-verte