Description
The Iziko SA Museum’s marine invertebrate collection is one of the largest and most comprehensive in Africa, and as such is an important collection for marine invertebrate systematists. The collection comprises ~130,000 lots of specimens (including un-accessioned material). Eleven hand-written catalogues exist for marine invertebrates dating back to 1871 and includes 76,184 entries.
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 10,984 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 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: 379156c8-c268-4537-aea4-83d94cc785f5. 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
Occurrence; Specimen
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
marine localities
Bounding Coordinates | South West [-65, -76], North East [71, 176] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Marine invertebrates
Phylum | Acanthocephala, Annelida, Arthropoda, Brachiopoda, Bryozoa, Cephalorhyncha, Chordata, Cnidaria, Coelenterata, Ctenophora, Dinoflagellata, Echinodermata, Echiura, Granuloreticulosa, Hemichordata, Myzozoa, Nematoda, Nemertea, Nemertine, Pantopoda, Phoronida, Platyhelminthes, Pogonophora, Porifera, Pycnogonida, Rotifera, Sipuncula |
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Temporal Coverage
Start Date / End Date | 1900-01-01 / 2011-01-01 |
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Additional Metadata
Alternative Identifiers | https://iptbeta.sanbi.org.za/resource?r=iziko_marine_invertebrate_collection |
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