Beaty Biodiversity Museum Marine Invertebrate Collection

Occurrence Specimen
Latest version published by University of British Columbia on Dec 10, 2024 University of British Columbia
Publication date:
December 10, 2024
License:
CC0 1.0

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Description

The Marine Invertebrate collection of the University of British Columbia was started in the 1940s with alcohol-preserved specimens collected by Dr. C. McLean Fraser and Dr. Ian McTaggart-Cowan. Primarily used for teaching, the collection eventually grew to several thousand specimens representing the major lineages of invertebrate animals. In 2006, Kelly Norton donated the Alice Stein collection, consisting of thousands of shells and corals. The Marine Invertebrate Collection was further expanded in 2007 with a large donation of shells from Evelyn Hebb Killam. Both contributions represent mostly tropical species and include some spectacular examples of global marine biodiversity, such as giant clams and some rare species of cowries.

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 132 records.

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Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of British Columbia. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 6045cef2-ae1b-486f-a321-6466f3130c10.  University of British Columbia publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canada Biodiversity Information Facility.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

Sheila Byers
  • Custodian Steward ●
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • Curatorial Assistant, Marine Invertebrate Collection
Beaty Biodiversity Museum
  • 2212 Main Mall
V6T 1Z4 Vancouver
British Columbia
CA
Mark Pitblado
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Processor ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • Collections Curator, Biodiversity Informatics
Beaty Biodiversity Museum
  • 2212 Main Mall
V6T 1Z4 Vancouver
British Columbia
CA

Geographic Coverage

Worldwide, emphasis on Pacific Northwest of North America

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]