CAS Entomology (ENT)

Occurrence
Version 6.295 published by California Academy of Sciences on Sept 9, 2024 California Academy of Sciences

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Description

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

Versions

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How to cite

Please be aware, this is an old version of the dataset.  Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Grinter C, Fong J (2024). CAS Entomology (ENT). Version 6.295. California Academy of Sciences. Occurrence dataset. http://ipt.calacademy.org:8080/resource?r=ent&v=6.295

Rights

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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