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LSUMZ (LSU MNS) Fishes Collection

Dataset homepage

Citation

Chakrabarty P (2019). LSUMZ (LSU MNS) Fishes Collection. Version 2.2. Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/gbnym3 accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-05-23.

Description

The permanent collection of fishes includes more than 350,000 specimens, with representatives of most major groups (orders and families) of living fishes in the world.

Additional info

http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html

Taxonomic Coverages

Geographic Coverages

The holdings include many specimens from the northern Gulf of Mexico, but there are important collections from the Hawaiian Islands, Mexico, Central and South America, Vietnam, Taiwan, Australia, and many other places around the Indo-West Pacific.

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Prosanta Chakrabarty
originator
position: Curator
Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science
119 Foster Hall
Baton Rouge
70803
LA
US
Telephone: +01 225-578-3079
email: prosanta@lsu.edu
homepage: http://sites01.lsu.edu/wp/mns/
Prosanta Chakrabarty
metadata author
position: Curator
Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science
119 Foster Hall
Baton Rouge
70803
LA
US
Telephone: +01 225-578-3079
email: prosanta@lsu.edu
homepage: http://sites01.lsu.edu/wp/mns/
Laura Russell
programmer
position: VertNet Programmer
VertNet
email: larussell@vertnet.org
homepage: http://www.vertnet.org
David Bloom
programmer
position: VertNet 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
Prosanta Chakrabarty
administrative point of contact
position: Assoicate Curator
Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science
119 Foster Hall
Baton Rouge
70803
LA
US
Telephone: +01 225-578-3079
email: prosanta@lsu.edu
homepage: http://sites01.lsu.edu/wp/mns/
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