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National Museum of Natural History Vertebrate Zoology Fishes Collections

The online Fish Collection database includes all relevant information for each cataloged lot of specimens. Please note that slightly over 50% of the holdings are presently listed and records are constantly added. Data included in the Locality field are directly from a collector's field notes or from cruise logs. Geographic retrieval fields added by cataloging staff are based on internally defined criteria and may not be geographically accurate.

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Publication Date
2021-12-02
Title

National Museum of Natural History Vertebrate Zoology Fishes Collections

Abstract

The online Fish Collection database includes all relevant information for each cataloged lot of specimens. Please note that slightly over 50% of the holdings are presently listed and records are constantly added. Data included in the Locality field are directly from a collector's field notes or from cruise logs. Geographic retrieval fields added by cataloging staff are based on internally defined criteria and may not be geographically accurate.

Dataset Language

en

 
Dataset Creator
  Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History

US

Metadata Provider
  Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)

BE

https://www.vliz.be
Associated Party

custodianSteward

  Smithsonian Institution; National Museum of Natural History - Jeff Williams

Dataset Contact
  Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)

BE

https://www.vliz.be

Geographic Coverage

Geographic Description

World Oceans

License Information

Intellectual Rights

This work is licensed under a

Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

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Distribution

Online

URL
http://vertebrates.si.edu/
 

Additional Metadata

describes

Extra metadata added by VLIZ to add parameter, platform info, as well as GBIF fields

Metadata

GBIF Metadata Block

Date Stamp

2021-12-02T15:16:02+01:00

Hierarchy Level

dataset

Citation

National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution NMNH Fishes Collection Database. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 10th and Constitution Ave. N.W., Washington, DC 20560-0193, 2007.

Physical

Object Name

Online dataset

Character Encoding

UTF-8

Data Format

Externally Defined Format

Format Name

HTML

Distribution

Online

URL
http://collections.mnh.si.edu/search/fishes/

Physical

Object Name

Online dataset

Character Encoding

UTF-8

Data Format

Externally Defined Format

Format Name

HTML

Distribution

Online

URL
https://www.emodnet-biology.eu/portal/index.php?dasid=1984

Physical

Object Name

Online dataset

Character Encoding

UTF-8

Data Format

Externally Defined Format

Format Name

HTML

Distribution

Online

URL
https://www.emodnet-biology.eu/toolbox/en/download/occurrence/dataset/1984

Physical

Object Name

Online dataset

Character Encoding

UTF-8

Data Format

Externally Defined Format

Format Name

HTML

Distribution

Online

URL
https://obis.org/dataset/d6d6fe4c-425f-4ce7-bf28-7a6befaeb413

Physical

Object Name

Metadata

Character Encoding

UTF-8

Data Format

Externally Defined Format

Format Name

HTML

Distribution

Online

URL
http://www.eurobis.org//imis?dasid=1984