Description
The electronic catalog of the ichthyology 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 217,295 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.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Catania D, Fong J (2024). CAS Ichthyology (ICH). Version 150.417. California Academy of Sciences. Occurrence dataset. http://ipt.calacademy.org:8080/resource?r=ich&v=150.417
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: 5d6c10bd-ea31-4363-8b79-58c96d859f5b. California Academy of Sciences publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by U.S. Geological Survey.
Keywords
Ichthyology; Fishes; Fish; Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence
Contacts
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Metadata Provider
- Curator
Geographic Coverage
The collection's scope is world-wide, with particular strengths in the tropical Indo-Pacific and South America.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
The collection's scope is vertebrate animals commonly understood as fishes.
| Class | Myxini, Elasmobranchii, Holocephali, Actinopterygii, Sarcopterygii |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1827-01-01 / 2021-01-01 |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | CAS Ichthyology |
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| Collection Identifier | CASICH |
| Parent Collection Identifier | CAS |
| Curatorial Units | Between 220,000 and 230,000 Lots |
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Additional Metadata
| Maintenance Description | Updated each Monday around 2:30 PM Pacific time. |
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| Alternative Identifiers | 5d6c10bd-ea31-4363-8b79-58c96d859f5b |
| http://ipt.calacademy.org:8080/resource?r=ich |