CAS Entomology (ENT)

Occurrence Specimen
Latest version published by California Academy of Sciences on Dec 30, 2024 California Academy of Sciences
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http://www.calacademy.org/scientists/entomology-collection
Publication date:
30 December 2024
License:
CC0 1.0

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Description

The electronic catalog of the entomology collection at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.

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 340,278 records.

2 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)
340278
Multimedia 
1746
ResourceRelationship 
28

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.

How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Grinter C, Fong J (2024). CAS Entomology (ENT). Version 6.311. California Academy of Sciences. Occurrence dataset. http://ipt.calacademy.org:8080/resource?r=ent&v=6.311

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is California Academy of Sciences. 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: 14f3151a-e95d-493c-a40d-d9938ef62954.  California Academy of Sciences publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence

Contacts

Chris Grinter
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • Collections Manager, Entomology
California Academy of Sciences
  • 55 Music Concourse Drive
94118 San Francisco
CA
US
  • +1 (415) 379-5320
Jon Fong
  • Metadata Provider
  • Programmer
California Academy of Sciences
  • 55 Music Concourse Drive
94118 San Francisco
CA
US
  • +1 (415) 379-5280

Geographic Coverage

The collection contains specimens from around the world.

Bounding Coordinates South West [-70, -180], North East [70, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

Arthropod animals commonly known as insects, spiders, centipedes, and millipedes (phylum Arthropoda; classes Arachnida, Insecta, Chilopoda).

Class Insecta (insects), Arachnida (spiders), Chilopoda

Temporal Coverage

Start Date 1862-01-01

Collection Data

Collection Name Entomology
Collection Identifier CASENT, CASLOT
Parent Collection Identifier CAS
Specimen preservation methods Pinned

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 14f3151a-e95d-493c-a40d-d9938ef62954
http://ipt.calacademy.org:8080/resource?r=ent