AM: Freshwater Invertebrates (1900-2005)

Occurrence
Latest version published by South African National Biodiversity Institute on Nov 22, 2017 South African National Biodiversity Institute
Publication date:
22 November 2017
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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Description

Specimen records held in the National Collection of Freshwater Invertebrates housed in the Albany Museum, Grahamstown, South Africa. 60344 records with approximately 57000 records georeferenced.

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 78,575 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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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

de Moor F (2015): AM: Freshwater Invertebrates (1900-2005). v1.3. South African National Biodiversity Institute. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanbi/resource?r=am_freshwater_invertebrates&v=1.3

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is South African National Biodiversity Institute. 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: 2ca312ee-40cf-49e0-b864-31531b7eba81.  South African National Biodiversity Institute publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by South African Biodiversity Information Facility.

Keywords

Freshwater Invertebrates; Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

Ferdy de Moor
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Senior Specialist Scientist
Albany Museum
Albany Museum, Department of Sports Arts Recreation and Culture , Eastern Cape Government, Somerset Street
6139 Grahamstown
Eastern Cape
ZA
046-6222312
Fhatani Ranwashe
  • Metadata Provider
Data Technician
SANBI
Private Bag X7, Kirstenbosch
7735 Claremont
Western Cape
ZA
021 799 8738

Geographic Coverage

The collection covers the whole of the Afrotropical Region (including surrounding islands and Madagascar) and there are small collections made in other regions of the world.

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Class Bivalvia, Chlorophyceae, Polyplacophora, Secernentea, Branchiopoda, Amphibia, Polychaeta, Monogononta, Gastropoda, Oligohymenophorea, Enopla, Adenophorea, Hirudinea, Chroobacteria, Arachnida, Charophyceae, Insecta, Oligochaeta, Hydrozoa, Maxillopoda, Phylactolaemata, Ostracoda, Nectonematoida, Malacostraca, Osteichthyes, Gymnolaemata, Turbellaria, Demospongiae, Diplopoda, Anthozoa, Crustacea

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1900-01-05 / 2005-08-11

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 2ca312ee-40cf-49e0-b864-31531b7eba81
http://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanbi/resource?r=am_freshwater_invertebrates