CAS Ichthyology (ICH)

Occurrence
Version 150.235 published by California Academy of Sciences on Aug 12, 2020 California Academy of Sciences
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Description

The electronic catalog of the ichthyology 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:

Catania D (2020): CAS Ichthyology (ICH). v150.235. California Academy of Sciences. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.calacademy.org:8080/resource?r=ich&v=150.235

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: 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

Contacts

David Catania
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Collection Manager, Ichthyology
California Academy of Sciences
55 Music Concourse Drive
94118 San Francisco
CA
US
+1 (415) 379-5279
Jon Fong
  • Metadata Provider
Programmer
California Academy of Sciences
55 Music Concourse Drive
94118 San Francisco
CA
US
+1 (415) 379-5280
Luiz Rocha
  • Curator
Curator
California Academy of Sciences
55 Music Concourse Drive
94118 San Francisco
CA
US
+1 (415) 379-5370

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]

Taxonomic Coverage

The collection's scope is vertebrate animals commonly understood as fishes.

Class Myxini, Elasmobranchii, Holocephali, Actinopterygii, Sarcopterygii

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1827-01-01 / 2018-12-31

Collection Data

Collection Name CAS Ichthyology
Collection Identifier ich
Parent Collection Identifier CAS
Curatorial Units Between 220,000 and 230,000 Lots

Additional Metadata

Maintenance Description Updated each Monday around 9:30 AM Pacific time.
Alternative Identifiers 5d6c10bd-ea31-4363-8b79-58c96d859f5b
http://ipt.calacademy.org:8080/resource?r=ich