Canadian Museum of Nature Fish Collection
Latest version published by Canadian Museum of Nature on May 15, 2019
Our Fish Collection contains more than 754 190 specimens in 63 655 lots of fluid-preserved specimens. We have about 1740 type specimens that are mainly paratypes. We have a good representation of freshwater and marine species, predominately from North American high latitudes. The museum holds the best Canadian Arctic and lamprey collection in the 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 61,859 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)
- Multimedia
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| Data as a DwC-A file | download 61,859 records in English (10 MB) - Update frequency: irregular |
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| Metadata as an EML file | download in English (7 KB) |
| Metadata as an RTF file | download in English (5 KB) |
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Khidas K (2018): Canadian Museum of Nature Fish Collection. v1.21. Canadian Museum of Nature. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.nature.ca/resource?r=cmn_fish&v=1.21
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GBIF Registration
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Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | dc3bfd08-0141-45ae-9603-91ac50cdc33b |
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| 830b4af8-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a | |
| http://ipt.nature.ca/resource?r=cmn_fish |