Canadian Museum of Nature Annelid Collection

Occurrence Specimen
Latest version published by Canadian Museum of Nature on Jan 16, 2026 Canadian Museum of Nature

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Description

The Canadian Museum of Nature's Annelid Collection provides a good representation of marine polychaetes, freshwater leeches and oligochaetes, with more than 65,000 lots, mostly from Canada, including the Arctic regions. This included the John W. Reynolds' Earthworm Collection.

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 21,920 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)
21920
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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:

Gagnon J, Blades R (2026). Canadian Museum of Nature Annelid Collection. Version 1.66. Canadian Museum of Nature. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.nature.ca/resource?r=cmn_annelid&v=1.66

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: e0fa07ae-74d9-44b1-8e05-5785482ccad2.  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; Occurrence

Contacts

Jean-Marc Gagnon
  • Curator
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Curator, Invertebrate Zoology Collections
Canadian Museum of Nature
Ottawa
Ontario
CA
  • 1-613-364-4066
Rob Blades
  • Metadata Provider
  • Digital Collections Information Manager
Canadian Museum of Nature
Ottawa
Ontario
CA

Geographic Coverage

Geographic coverage mostly but not exclusively North America and surrounding waters, with strong emphasis on Canada and US (Oligochaeta and Hirudinea) and Northeast Pacific, Arctic and Northwest Atlantic (Polychaeta).

Bounding Coordinates South West [11.178, -180], North East [83.677, -33.75]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Class Polychaeta (Marine worms)
Subclass Oligochaeta (Earthworms), Hirudinea (Leeches)

Temporal Coverage

Formation Period Mid 1900's to present

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers e0fa07ae-74d9-44b1-8e05-5785482ccad2
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