Description
The UBC-BBM Fish Collection (University of British Columbia, Beaty Biodiversity Museum, UBFC), was begun by Dr. C. McLean Fraser in the Department of Zoology in the 1910s. It was officially created in 1945 when the cataloguing was started. It has been managed by different UBC institutes and departments until 2010 when the BBM was created. The computerization started in 1975. The oldest specimen was collected in 1903. The collection may currently hold 26,000 lots with 300,000 specimens over the 33,700 lots with 346,000 specimens recorded in the database (inventory 2023). Almost 32,000 recorded lots are georeferenced, from about 5,700 different stations. Two-thirds of the recorded lots come from marine waters, but one third in terms of number of specimens. Besides fishes from British Columbia and adjacent Canada and USA’s states that are the location for 75% of the recorded lots, various expeditions in the Pacific and Asia in the 1950-60s increased the diversity to reach today about 2,800 recorded valid species, with recorded 11 holotypes and 209 paratypes for 38 nominal species. About 500 x-ray plates and 129 drawings are available at https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bbmnhibc. For more details, see https://beatymuseum.ubc.ca/research-2/collections/fish-collection/. The database was previously disseminated through FishBase since 1996 (temporarily, there may be duplicates in GBIF).
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 34,804 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
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
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: 4caf2040-83ad-4fa7-ba13-005bced721eb. 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
- Custodian Steward ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Metadata Provider ●
- Processor
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8786-5167
- Curator
Geographic Coverage
Worldwide with emphasis for marine species on the North Pacific (some in South Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian ocean), for freshwater species on North America (mainly British Columbia, some in Asia, few in South America and Europe).
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1946-01-01 / 2024-02-01 |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | Beaty Biodiversity Museum Fish Collection |
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| Collection Identifier | ICH |
| Specimen preservation methods | Alcohol, Glycerin, Other |
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| Curatorial Units | Count 35,000 +/- 1,000 lots |
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Additional Metadata
Currently this dataset contains only the names that were assigned during the registration of the specimens. We are currently working to add the current valid name. Note: the current otherCatalogNumber corresponds to a collection event number. Thus, lots of specimens caught during the same collection event carries the same otherCatalogNumber. Two digits will be progressively added to differentiate all lots.
| Alternative Identifiers | 4caf2040-83ad-4fa7-ba13-005bced721eb |
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| https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=beaty-museum-fish-collection |