Description
The electronic catalog of the ichthyology collection at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Please be aware, this is an old version of the dataset. Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Catania D, Fong J (2023). CAS Ichthyology (ICH). Version 150.385. California Academy of Sciences. Occurrence dataset. http://ipt.calacademy.org:8080/resource?r=ich&v=150.385
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 GBIF-US.
Keywords
Ichthyology; Fishes; Fish; Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence
Contacts
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
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- 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 |