Description
The Royal Ontario Museum Fungarium (TRTC) was originally founded at the University of Toronto around 1887 under the name of “The Cryptogamic Herbarium”. The real development of the herbarium began in 1928 with the appointment of Dr. H.S. Jackson as head of the Department of Botany at the University of Toronto. Under Dr. Jackson’s leadership, later followed by Dr. R.F. Cain, and in association with their students, the Fungarium underwent a period of major expansion. Active development was continued by Dr. J.C. Krug and as a result, the herbarium has grown from about 500 collections in 1928 to its present holding estimated to be about half a million specimens. The collections and their responsibility were transferred to the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in June 1996. The TRTC is richest in Canadian material but has a worldwide representation. It holds many unique specimens (including approximately 1,000 Types) obtained from private herbaria, fieldwork by University of Toronto and ROM scholars, and also to some extent by local amateurs. An active exchange program with other herbaria has also added many exotic specimens to the collection, including 81 different sets of Exsiccatae from a variety of North American, European, and Asian sources. Its present holdings make TRTC one of the largest and most significant fungal repositories in North America with a wide taxonomic representation that covers all major groups of fungi and slime molds. The Royal Ontario Museum Fungarium is still active and continues to grow its collections under the direction of Dr. Jean-Marc Moncalvo.
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 11,129 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:
Royal Ontario Museum Fungarium (TRTC) from Royal Ontario Museum. http://dx.doi.org/10.5886/7vdj5O7d (accessed on [date]).
Rights
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GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: d7cfd2ed-8af4-427f-a16e-eb66b7e2c419. Royal Ontario Museum publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canada Biodiversity Information Facility.
Keywords
TRTC; Royal Ontario Museum Fungarium; ROM; Royal Ontario Museum; Canadensys; North America; Canada; Ontario; collection; fungarium; specimens; Fungi; Occurrence
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
| Canadensys explorer | http://data.canadensys.net/explorer/en/resources/trtc-specimens UTF-8 HTML |
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| GBIF data portal | http://www.gbif.org/dataset/d7cfd2ed-8af4-427f-a16e-eb66b7e2c419 UTF-8 HTML |
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Geographic Coverage
The Royal Ontario Museum Fungarium (TRTC) holds specimens collected from all continents. North America is best represented, followed by Europe and South America. TRTC also possesses specimens from Africa, Asia and few representatives from Australia. Currently this dataset comprises digitized specimens from Ontario, Canada.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
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| Kingdom | Fungi, Protozoa (slime moulds) |
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| Phylum | Basidiomycota, Ascomycota |
Temporal Coverage
| Formation Period | 1887-present |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | Royal Ontario Museum Fungarium |
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| Collection Identifier | TRTC |
| Parent Collection Identifier | TRTC |
| Specimen preservation methods | Dried |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | d7cfd2ed-8af4-427f-a16e-eb66b7e2c419 |
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| http://dx.doi.org/10.5886/7vdj5O7d | |
| https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=trtc-specimens |