Description
The Arthropoda collection is an outstanding resource in terms of biodiversity conservation, biosystematics perspective, economic importance and medical and veterinary research.Approximately 35000 data records of individual 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 35,517 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
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Muller B (2016): NMSA: Arthropod Collections (1900-2012). v1.1. South African National Biodiversity Institute. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanbi/resource?r=nmsa&v=1.1
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: aa4916c3-3dc7-4c90-9f8e-b81d986df153. 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
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- User
Geographic Coverage
Global distributions
Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Arthropods
Phylum | Arthropoda |
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Order | Diptera, Lepidoptera, Mecoptera |
Temporal Coverage
Start Date / End Date | 1900-01-01 / 2012-01-01 |
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Additional Metadata
Alternative Identifiers | aa4916c3-3dc7-4c90-9f8e-b81d986df153 |
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http://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanbi/resource?r=nmsa |