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Atlantic Reference Centre Museum of Canadian Atlantic Organisms - Invertebrates and Fishes Data

Dataset homepage

Citation

Van Guelpen, L., 2016. Atlantic Reference Centre Museum of Canadian Atlantic Organisms - Invertebrates and Fishes Data. Version 4 In OBIS Canada Digital Collections. Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada. Published by OBIS, Digital http://www.iobis.org/. Accessed on –INSERT DATE https://doi.org/10.15468/wsxvo6 accessed via GBIF.org on 2021-04-16. accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-05-23.

Description

This is the OBIS version of the Atlantic Reference Centre museum database for Canadian Atlantic marine organisms. Specimens represent invertebrates from sponges to tunicates, and fishes. The ichthyoplankton collection is the most extensive, with complete holdings from many scientific broad-scale surveys. Geographic coverage is the Arctic to Cape Cod and the coast to the slope water. Temporally, most specimens were collected from the 1960s to the present.

Sampling Description

Study Extent

global

Sampling

museum collection of specimens

Method steps

  1. Version 3 of the resource was created by the Atlantic Reference Centre (ARC) in collaboration with the OBIS Canada data management team and the Atlantic Coastal Zone Information Steering Committee (ACZISC) as part of the Atlantic Ecosystem Initiative (AEI) 2015-2016 funded project “Atlantic Canada’s Biological Data for Ecosystem Planning and Decision-making”. This version includes the addition of a number of new specimens which were collected as part of a major estuarine project associated with the monitoring of the Musquash Marine Protected Area in New Brunswick, Canada. Specimens catalogued were appended to the museum's database during the summer of 2015. Acknowledgements: Thanks to the Davine Albert for assisting with this project. This version also includes corrected longitude values - in the previous version users reported that longitude coordinates were truncated to degrees only.
  2. Version 4 is a refresh of the content conducted in September 2016.

Additional info

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Taxonomic Coverages

Canadian Atlantic marine organisms - invertebrates from sponges to tunicates, and fishes. The ichthyoplankton collection is the most extensive.
  1. actinopterigii
    rank: class

Geographic Coverages

Records primarily from the Canadian Atlantic - the Arctic to Cape Cod and the coast to the slope water.

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Lou Van Guelpen
originator
position: Curator of Fishes and Collections Manager
Huntsman Marine Science Centre
1 Lower Campus Road
St. Andrews
E5B 2L7
New Brunswick
CA
email: louvg4836@hotmail.com
Rebecca Milne
originator
position: Laboratory Manager
Huntsman Marine Science Centre
1 Lower Campus Road
St. Andrews
E5B 2L7
New Brunswick
CA
email: arc@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Rebecca Milne
metadata author
position: Laboratory Manager
Huntsman Marine Science Centre
1 Lower Campus Road
St. Andrews
E5B 2L7
New Brunswick
CA
email: arc@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
custodian steward
Huntsman Marine Science Centre
1 Lower Campus Road
St. Andrews
E5B 1L7
New Brunswick
CA
Telephone: 1-506-529-1200
email: huntsman@huntsmanmarine.ca
homepage: http://www.huntsmanmarine.ca
OBIS Canada
publisher
position: data management team
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Dartmouth
Nova Scotia
CA
email: mary.kennedy@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Rebecca Milne
administrative point of contact
position: Laboratory Manager
Huntsman Marine Science Centre
1 Lower Campus Road
St. Andrews
E5B 2L7
New Brunswick
CA
email: arc@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
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