Invertebrates (Type Specimens) of the Swedish Museum of Natural History

Occurrence Specimen
Latest version published by Swedish Museum of Natural History on Dec 19, 2025 Swedish Museum of Natural History
Publication date:
19 December 2025
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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Description

The invertebrate type collection at the Swedish Museum of Natural History houses over 8 000 lots of which about 6 600 have been verified (2015). Mollusca constitute about 20% of the type collection. Other well represented groups are Polychaeta, Oligochaeta, Anthozoa, Amphipoda and Echinodermata. The collection houses a large proportion of the type specimens by Ch. Erséus, A. J. Malmgren, A. Warén, O. Carlgren, S. Lovén, S. Boström, U. Jondelius, S. Stöhr, A. V. Ljungman, H. Théel, and S. Bock. More information can be found at 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 9,528 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)
9528
Multimedia 
10514

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Stöhr S (2025). Invertebrates (Type Specimens) of the Swedish Museum of Natural History. Version 2.6. Swedish Museum of Natural History. Occurrence dataset. https://www.gbif.se/ipt/resource?r=nrm-invertebrate-type&v=2.6

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Swedish Museum of Natural History. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: f2ec825d-145a-42fd-9bfe-a411a557bc47.  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

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers f2ec825d-145a-42fd-9bfe-a411a557bc47
https://www.gbif.se/ipt/resource?r=nrm-invertebrate-type