Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History - Marine Birds, Mammals, and Fishes

Canadian node of the Ocean Biogeographic Information System

Nova Scotia Museum

Acronym: OBIS Canada

Description

This is the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History database for marine organisms, including birds, mammals, and fishes. It contains mostly Nova Scotia material but there is also representation from New Brunswick, Newfoundland, the Northwest Territories, and other parts of North America. The ichthyology collection is the most extensive with over 2800 specimens. Temporally, specimens were collected from 1873 to 2002. The dataset was developed from the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History (NSMNH) - Museum Information Management System (MIMS) as an electronic catalogue of specimen and collecting information. OBIS Schema concepts implemented in this data set are: DateLastModified, InstitutionCode, CollectionCode, CatalogNumber, ScientificName, BasisOfRecord, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species, Collector, ScientificNameAuthor, ContinentOcean, Locality, Longitude, Latitude, Sex, IndividualCount, StartLongitude, EndLongitude, StartLatitude, EndLatitude. For OBIS Schema concept details see http://www.iobis.org/tech/provider/

Citation

Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History - Marine Birds, Mammals, and Fishes (OBIS Canada). Ocean Biogeographic Information System. Occurrence Dataset http://doi.org/10.15468/fnz3ch accessed via GBIF.org on 2017-04-25.

Rights

Dataset: Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History - Marine Birds, Mammals, and Fishes (OBIS Canada) Rights as supplied: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

Digitised records

Metadata last updated on 2018-01-29 08:47:53.0