Description
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.
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 822,174 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.
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
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
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Metadata Provider
Geographic Coverage
Ants occupy terrestrial habitats worldwide except in the Antarctic.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Animalia:Arthropoda:Insecta:Hymenoptera:Formicidae
| Family | Formicidae (Ants) |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 13b70480-bd69-11dd-b15f-b8a03c50a862 |
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| http://ipt.calacademy.org:8080/resource?r=antweb |