Canadian Museum of Nature Mollusc Collection
Latest version published by Canadian Museum of Nature on Sep 16, 2020
The Canadian Museum of Nature's Mollusc Collection is the largest, most comprehensive collection of molluscs in Canada. The museum's 165,000 lots are divided into two sections: dry shell collection and wet collection. Overall, the collection represents more than 350 families, collected in over 12 countries and numerous oceans.
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 50,869 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
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.
Downloads
Download the latest version of this resource data as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) or the resource metadata as EML or RTF:
Data as a DwC-A file | download 50,869 records in English (7 MB) - Update frequency: irregular |
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Metadata as an EML file | download in English (6 KB) |
Metadata as an RTF file | download in English (5 KB) |
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:
Gagnon J (2018): Canadian Museum of Nature Mollusc Collection. v1.21. Canadian Museum of Nature. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.nature.ca/resource?r=cmn_mollusc&v=1.21
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Canadian Museum of Nature. 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: 0b94e07b-898e-47fc-b95f-31a5538f326b. Canadian Museum of Nature publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canada Biodiversity Information Facility.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Collection
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Geographic Coverage
Global distribution- Freshwater, terrestrial and marine
Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Additional Metadata
Alternative Identifiers | 0b94e07b-898e-47fc-b95f-31a5538f326b |
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830c7b08-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a | |
http://ipt.nature.ca/resource?r=cmn_mollusc |