Royal Ontario Museum - Invertebrate Zoology

Occurrence Specimen
Latest version published by Royal Ontario Museum on Feb 24, 2025 Royal Ontario Museum

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Description

Strengths include Cnidaria, Platyhelminthes, Annelida, Mollusca and Astacidea (crayfishes). Primary focus is the Western Hemisphere and especially Ontario, other parts of Canada, the western North Atlantic, and the North and South Pacific.

Data Records

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Hubley B (2025). Royal Ontario Museum - Invertebrate Zoology. Version 2.0. Royal Ontario Museum. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.5886/7wlftb

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Royal Ontario Museum. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 7a9ad56e-7452-4f24-a1b4-3be3400c9a9d.  Royal Ontario Museum publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canada Biodiversity Information Facility.

Keywords

Occurrence

Contacts

Brad Hubley
  • Originator
  • Collection Manager
Royal Ontario Museum
CA
Don Stacey
  • Point Of Contact
  • Collections Technician
Royal Ontario Museum
CA
Sebastian Kvist
  • Point Of Contact
  • Curator
Royal Ontario Museum
CA
Maureen Zubowski
  • Point Of Contact
  • Collections Technician
Royal Ontario Museum
CA
Marion Leménager
  • Editor

Taxonomic Coverage

N/A

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca, Arthropoda, Annelida
Class Malacostraca, Gastropoda, Clitellata
Order Enchytraeida, Decapoda, Mysida, Neogastropoda, Stylommatophora
Family Turridae, Xanthidae, Enchytraeidae, Coralliophilidae, Pupillidae, Conidae, Mysidae

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 10.5886/7wlftb
https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=romiz-specimens