Terrestrial and Limnic Invertebrate Collection

Occurrence
Latest version published by Gothenburg Natural History Museum (GNM) on Jul 16, 2024 Gothenburg Natural History Museum (GNM)
Publication date:
16 July 2024
License:
CC0 1.0

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Description

This dataset contains specimen data of terrestrial and limnic invertebrates from Gothenburg natural history museum. The collections contain several million specimens and new material are digitized continuously. It includes mostly Swedish specimens but also material collected in other parts of the world. A large part of the Swedish material comes from the museum's ”Terrestrial invertebrate faunistic research program”, which was carried out from the 1920s until 1981. The main bulk of the material consists of ethanol preserved specimens.

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 9,263 records.

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

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Rights

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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: acc48ac6-2c8f-461f-895a-ca1218ef12c8.  Gothenburg Natural History Museum (GNM) publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Sweden.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

Charlotte Jonsson
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Curator
Gothenburg Natural History Museum
Christian Isenvadh
  • User
  • Developer
Gothenburg Natural History Museum
SE
Christian Isenvadh

Geographic Coverage

Mostly Swedish specimens

Bounding Coordinates South West [55.502, 11.031], North East [68.531, 24.122]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Phylum Arthropoda
Class Arachnida
Order Araneae
Family Nesticidae, Lycosidae, Pisauridae, Titanoecidae, Cybaeidae, Liocranidae, Thomisidae, Phrurolithidae, Hahniidae, Pholcidae, Agelenidae, Theridiidae, Philodromidae, Uloboridae, Mimetidae, Tetragnathidae, Linyphiidae, Eutichuridae, Miturgidae, Sparassidae, Oxyopidae, Argyronetidae, Gnaphosidae, Segestriidae, Dictynidae, Araneidae, Anyphaenidae, Salticidae, Clubionidae, Amaurobiidae

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1863-06-15 / 2020-08-28

Additional Metadata