CHAS Ichthyology Collection (Arctos)

Dawn Roberts

doi:10.15468/sisvtp

CHAS Ichthyology Collection (Arctos)

Citation

Roberts D (2021). CHAS Ichthyology Collection (Arctos). Version 13.49. Chicago Academy of Sciences. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/sisvtp accessed via GBIF.org on 2021-04-11.

Description

The Chicago Academy of Sciences ichthyology collection is a very small mixture of historic and more recent fish specimens, primarily from the United States.

Additional info

http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html Rooted in Chicago, Illinois, the Chicago Academy of Sciences was founded in 1857 and was the first science museum in Chicago. Through its Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, the Academy connects its community to local environments and inspires life-long relationships with urban nature. The museum collections and archives contain natural history collections in the disciplines of botany, entomology, geology, herpetology, ichthyology, malacology, mammalogy, oology, ornithology, and paleontology, as well as cultural collections, audio visual collections, and archives. These materials range from the 1830s to the present and are predominantly from North America with a focus in the Midwest/Western Great Lakes region.

Taxonomic Coverages

Beloniformes, Cypriniformes, Orectolobiformes, Perciformes, Petromyzontiformes, Salmoniformes, Scorpaeniformes, Semionotiformes, Siluriformes,

Actinopterygii
rank: class
Cephalaspidomorphi
rank: class
Chondrichthyes
rank: class

Geographic Coverages

Primarily United States, especially the Midwest and Southeast.

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Dawn Roberts
originator
position: Director of Collections
The Chicago Academy of Sciences
2430 North Cannon Drive
Chicago
60614
IL
US
Telephone: +01 773-755-5125
email: droberts@naturemuseum.org
homepage: http://www.naturemuseum.org

Dawn Roberts
metadata author
position: Director of Collections
The Chicago Academy of Sciences
2430 North Cannon Drive
Chicago
60614
IL
US
Telephone: +01 773-755-5125
email: droberts@naturemuseum.org
homepage: http://www.naturemuseum.org

Erica Krimmel
point of contact
position: Assistant Collections Manager
The Chicago Academy of Sciences
2430 North Cannon Drive
Chicago
60614
IL
US
Telephone: +01 773-755-5118
email: ekrimmel@naturemuseum.org
homepage: http://www.naturemuseum.org

David Bloom
programmer
position: Coordinator
VertNet
email: dbloom@vertnet.org
homepage: http://www.vertnet.org

John Wieczorek
programmer
position: Information Architect
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley
email: tuco@berkeley.edu

Dawn Roberts
administrative point of contact
position: Director of Collections
The Chicago Academy of Sciences
2430 North Cannon Drive
Chicago
60614
IL
US
Telephone: +01 773-755-5125
email: droberts@naturemuseum.org
homepage: http://www.naturemuseum.org