IZIKO: Marine Invertebrate Collection (1900-2011)

Wayne Florence1, Fhatani Ranwashe2, Fhatani Ranwashe3

1 Iziko South African Museum, Iziko South African Museum, PO Box 61, 8000, Cape Town, South Africa; 2 SANBI, Private Bag X7, Kirstenbosch, 7735, Claremont, South Africa; 3 

Corresponding author(s): Wayne Florence (wflorence@iziko.org.za), Fhatani Ranwashe (f.ranwashe@sanbi.org.za)

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Abstract

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.

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen

Data published through GBIF: https://iptbeta.sanbi.org.za/resource?r=iziko_marine_invertebrate_collection

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Marine invertebrates
Taxonomic ranks
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

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: marine localities
Coordinates: 65°0'0''S and 71°0'0''N Latitude; 76°0'0''W and 176°0'0''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: 1900 - 2011

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive IZIKO: Marine Invertebrate Collection (1900-2011)
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Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://iptbeta.sanbi.org.za/archive.do?r=iziko_marine_invertebrate_collection
Publication date of data: 2016-07-06
Language: English
Licences of use: This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode">Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License</a>.

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2016-06-24
Hierarchy level: Dataset