Description
This is a collection amassed primarily by Terry R Hitchings at Canterbury Museum, New Zealand. Mr. Hitchings began collecting, curating, identifying and describing new species from the collection in the early 1990s, incorporating the existing Canterbury Museum mayfly collections into this work. From the late 2000s, Mr. Hitchings son Timothy R Hitchings began working with his father on the collection. Their work on the group is ongoing. A project to fully catalogue this collection was completed a couple of years ago.
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 48,992 records.
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:
Ridden J (2021): Canterbury Museum Mayfly Collection. v1. Canterbury Museum. Dataset/Occurrence. https://ipt.gbif.org/resource?r=canterburymuseummayflycollection&v=1.0
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Test Organization #1. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 0a55d764-d451-43bf-b1b2-d5cf41ad94df. Test Organization #1 publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Secretariat.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; New Zealand; Ephemeroptera
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Geographic Coverage
Geographic coverage is across the three main islands of New Zealand, with some sub-Antarctic island material. The main focus on the South Island, as the Hitchings are based in Christchurch.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-65.513, -153.984], North East [-28.613, 157.852] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
This data covers the majority of described species of Ephemeroptera recorded in New Zealand.
| Family | Leptophlebiidae, Tachinidae |
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| Genus | Atalophlebioides, Austroclima, Deleatidium, Nesameletus, Tepakia, Zephlebia |
| Species | Acanthophlebia cruentata, Ameletopsis perscitus, Arachnocolus phillipsi, Atalophlebioides cromwelli, Auporiella pohei, Austroclima jollyae, Austroclima sepia, Austronella planulata, Coloburiscus humeralis, Cryophlebia aucklandensis, Deleatidium acerbum, Deleatidium angustum, Deleatidium atricolor, Deleatidium autumnale, Deleatidium branchiola, Deleatidium cerinum, Deleatidium cornutum, Deleatidium crawfordi, Deleatidium fumosum, Deleatidium insolitum, Deleatidium kawatiri, Deleatidium kiwa, Deleatidium lillii, Deleatidium magnum, Deleatidium myzobranchia, Deleatidium patricki, Deleatidium rapidum, Deleatidium townsi, Deleatidium vernale, Deleatidium wardorum, Ichthybotus bicolor, Ichthybotus hudsoni, Isothraulus abditus, Mauiulus aquilus, Mauiulus luma, Neozephlebia scita, Nesameletus austrinus, Nesameletus flavitinctus, Nesameletus murihiku, Nesameletus ornatus, Nesameletus vulcanus, Oniscigaster distans, Oniscigaster wakefieldi, Rallidens mcfarlanei, Rallidens platydontis, Siphlaenigma janae, Tepakia caligata, Zephlebia borealis, Zephlebia dentata, Zephlebia inconspicua, Zephlebia nebulosa, Zephlebia pirongia, Zephlebia spectabilis, Zephlebia tuberculata, Zephlebia versicolor |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date | 1914-01-01 |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | Canterbury Museum Mayfly Collection |
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| Specimen preservation methods | Alcohol |
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Additional Metadata
| Purpose | This dataset will provide information on freshwater mayflies species to inform change over time and environmental conditions of freshwater ecosystems in New Zealand. |
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| Maintenance Description | This resource will be updated overtime as the collection is added to and databased. |
| Alternative Identifiers | CMNZmayfly |
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