Beaty Biodiversity Museum Fish Collection
Citation
Bailly N, Pitblado M (2024). Beaty Biodiversity Museum Fish Collection. Version 1.3. University of British Columbia. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/yacq34 accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-12.Description
The UBC-BBM Fish Collection (University of British Columbia, Beaty Biodiversity Museum, UBFC), was begun by Dr. C. McLean Fraser in the Department of Zoology in the 1910s. It was officially created in 1945 when the cataloguing was started. It has been managed by different UBC institutes and departments until 2010 when the BBM was created. The computerization started in 1975. The oldest specimen was collected in 1903. The collection may currently hold 26,000 lots with 300,000 specimens over the 33,700 lots with 346,000 specimens recorded in the database (inventory 2023). Almost 32,000 recorded lots are georeferenced, from about 5,700 different stations. Two-thirds of the recorded lots come from marine waters, but one third in terms of number of specimens. Besides fishes from British Columbia and adjacent Canada and USA’s states that are the location for 75% of the recorded lots, various expeditions in the Pacific and Asia in the 1950-60s increased the diversity to reach today about 2,800 recorded valid species, with recorded 11 holotypes and 209 paratypes for 38 nominal species. About 500 x-ray plates and 129 drawings are available at https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bbmnhibc. For more details, see https://beatymuseum.ubc.ca/research-2/collections/fish-collection/. The database was previously disseminated through FishBase since 1996 (temporarily, there may be duplicates in GBIF).Additional info
Currently this dataset contains only the names that were assigned during the registration of the specimens. We are currently working to add the current valid name. Note: the current otherCatalogNumber corresponds to a collection event number. Thus, lots of specimens caught during the same collection event carries the same otherCatalogNumber. Two digits will be progressively added to differentiate all lots.Taxonomic Coverages
Geographic Coverages
Worldwide with emphasis for marine species on the North Pacific (some in South Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian ocean), for freshwater species on North America (mainly British Columbia, some in Asia, few in South America and Europe).
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Contacts
Nicolas Baillyoriginator
position: Curatorial Assistant
Beaty Biodiversity Museum
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver
V6T 1Z4
British Columbia
CA
email: nicolas.bailly@ubc.ca
Mark Pitblado
metadata author
position: Collections Curator, Biodiversity Informatics
Beaty Biodiversity Museum
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver
V6T 1Z4
British Columbia
CA
email: mark.pitblado@ubc.ca
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8786-5167
Mark Pitblado
processor
position: Collections Curator, Biodiversity Informatics
Beaty Biodiversity Museum
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver
V6T1Z4
British Columbia
CA
email: mark.pitblado@ubc.ca
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8786-5167
Nicolas Bailly
custodian steward
position: Curatorial Assistant
Beaty Biodiversity Museum
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver
V6T1Z4
British Columbia
CA
email: nicolas.bailly@ubc.ca
Eric G. Taylor
curator
position: Director of Fish Collection
Department of Zoology
CA
Nicolas Bailly
administrative point of contact
position: Curatorial Assistant
Beaty Biodiversity Museum
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver
V6T 1Z4
British Columbia
CA
email: nicolas.bailly@ubc.ca