OCCURRENCE

AntWeb

Latest version published by California Academy of Sciences on 29 May 2023 California Academy of Sciences
AntWeb is the world's largest online database of images, specimen records, and natural history information on ants. It is community driven and open to contribution from anyone with specimen records, natural history comments, or images.
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29 May 2023
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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 797,959 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

  • Occurrence (core)
    797959
  • Multimedia 
    248400

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.

Downloads

Download the latest version of this resource data as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) or the resource metadata as EML or RTF:

Data as a DwC-A file download 797,959 records in English (33 MB) - Update frequency: weekly
Metadata as an EML file download in English (5 kB)
Metadata as an RTF file download in English (6 kB)

Versions

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is California Academy of Sciences. 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: 13b70480-bd69-11dd-b15f-b8a03c50a862.  California Academy of Sciences publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by U.S. Geological Survey.

Keywords

Occurrence; Occurrence

Contacts

Who created the resource:

Brian Fisher
Curator
California Academy of Sciences
55 Music Concourse Drvie
94118 San Francisco
CA
US
http://www.calacademy.org/staff/ibss/entomology/brian-fisher

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Brian Fisher
Curator
California Academy of Sciences
55 Music Concourse Drvie
94118 San Francisco
CA
US
http://www.calacademy.org/staff/ibss/entomology/brian-fisher

Who filled in the metadata:

Jon Fong
Programmer
California Academy of Sciences
55 Music Concourse Dr.
94118 San Francisco
California
US
415-379-5280
https://www.calacademy.org/staff/ibss/ichthyology/jon-fong

Geographic Coverage

Ants occupy terrestrial habitats worldwide except in the Antarctic.

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

Taxonomic Coverage

Animalia:Arthropoda:Insecta:Hymenoptera:Formicidae

Family  Formicidae (Ants)

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 13b70480-bd69-11dd-b15f-b8a03c50a862
http://ipt.calacademy.org:8080/resource?r=antweb