Description
Established in 1812, The Academy of Natural Sciences hosts one of the most important collections of preserved fishes in the world with an estimated 1.6 million specimens in 155,000 lots representing more than 15,000 species. The collection is particularly rich in catfishes (Order Siluriformes), minnows (Cypriniformes) and eels (Anguilliformes). Geographically, its strengths include freshwater species of North and South America and marine species of the North Atlantic and Indian Oceans. ANSP also has one of the world’s largest collections of fish types with 2,797 primary and 17,881 secondary type specimens representing 1,857 and 2,048 species/subspecies, respectively. In total, ANSP types represent ~3,086 species/subspecies and ~8.4% of all fish species ever named as such (as of Jan 2024). Specimens aside, staff have assembled and curate ~18,000 frozen tissue samples of thousands of fish species primarily from the U.S. and South America.
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 156,719 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:
Sabaj Perez M (2024). Academy of Natural Sciences Ichthyology Collection. Version 1.8. Academy of Natural Sciences. Occurrence dataset. http://ans-collectweb.ansp.org:8080/ipt-2.7.7/resource?r=ansp_ichthyology_collection&v=1.8
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 Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 688ad458-54d4-49ce-af54-4b7dafefb4f7. Test Organization #1 publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Secretariat.
Keywords
Occurrence
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
The Geographic coverage is meant to be global as this collection consists of fish in both fresh and salt water
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-78.167, -179.885], North East [78.314, 179.884] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
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| Kingdom | Animalia |
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| Family | Triakidae, Echeneididae, Cottidae, Lepidosirenidae, Monodactylidae, Lophiidae, Percidae, Dasyatidae, Percopsidae, Rajidae, Ictaluridae, Malacanthidae, Gasterosteidae, Esocidae, Catostomidae, Myxinidae, Myliobatidae, Branchiostomidae, Petromyzontidae, Centrarchidae, Salmonidae, Tetraodontidae, Cyprinodontidae, Balistidae, Cyprinidae, Clupeidae, Achiridae |
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | https://ipt.gbif.org/resource?r=test-character-encoding-issue |
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