Atlantic Reference Centre Museum of Canadian Atlantic Organisms - Invertebrates and Fishes Data
Citation
Van Guelpen L (2016). Atlantic Reference Centre Museum of Canadian Atlantic Organisms - Invertebrates and Fishes Data. Canadian node of the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS Canada). Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/wsxvo6 accessed via GBIF.org on 2019-10-15.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
globalSampling
museum collection of specimensMethod steps
- 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. Version 4 is a refresh of the content conducted in September 2016.
Additional info
marine, harvested by iOBISTaxonomic Coverages
Canadian Atlantic marine organisms - invertebrates from sponges to tunicates, and fishes. The ichthyoplankton collection is the most extensive.
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actinopterigiirank: 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 Guelpenoriginator
position: Curator of Fishes and Collections Manager
Huntsman Marine Science Centre
1 Lower Campus Road
St. Andrews
E5B 2L7
New Brunswick
CA
email: arc@mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca
OBIS Canada
metadata author
position: data management team
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Dartmouth
B2Y 4A2
Nova Scotia
CA
email: obiscanada@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
Lou Van Guelpen
administrative point of contact
position: Curator of Fishes and Collections Manager
Huntsman Marine Science Centre
1 Lower Campus Road
St. Andrews
E5B 2L7
New Brunswick
CA
email: arc@mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Rebecca Milne
administrative point of contact
position: Laboratory Supervisor
Huntsman Marine Science Centre
1 Lower Campus Road
St. Andrews
E5B 2L7
New Brunswick
CA
email: arc@mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca