NCSM Non-molluscan Invertebrates Collection

Ben Norton

doi:10.36102/dwc.8

NCSM Non-molluscan Invertebrates Collection

Citation

Norton B (2022). NCSM Non-molluscan Invertebrates Collection. Version 1.5. North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.36102/dwc.8 accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-07-05.

Description

The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences’ Non-molluscan Invertebrate Collection houses well over 250,000 specimens representing more than 20 phyla. With specimens dating back to the 1870s, the Collection reflects nearly a century and a half of collecting in freshwater, terrestrial, and near- and far-shorts marine habitats of the Carolinas, Mid-Atlantic Region, and southeastern USA. It includes one of the largest collections of freshwater crayfish in, and of the southeastern USA, a substantial and internationally significant myriapod collection, and one of the largest and most historically important collections of marine invertebrates in the Mid-Atlantic region.

Taxonomic Coverages

Annelida
rank: phylum
Porifera
rank: phylum
Nemertea
rank: phylum
Bryozoa
rank: phylum
Arthropoda
rank: phylum
Brachiopoda
rank: phylum
Foraminifera
rank: phylum
Ciliophora
rank: phylum
Platyhelminthes
rank: phylum
Nematoda
rank: phylum
Cnidaria
rank: phylum
Echinodermata
rank: phylum
Nematomorpha
rank: phylum

Geographic Coverages

The Non-molluscan Invertebrates Collection covers 42 countries across all seven continents.

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Ben Norton
originator
position: Head of Technology, Collections Data Curator
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
11 West Jones Street
Raleigh
27601
NC
US
Telephone: 919.707.9947
email: ben.norton@naturalsciences.org
homepage: https://naturalsciences.org/staff/ben-norton
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5819-9134

Ben Norton
metadata author
position: Head of Technology
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
11 West Jones Street
Raleigh
27601
NC
US
Telephone: 919.707.9947
email: ben.norton@naturalsciences.org
homepage: https://naturalsciences.org/staff/ben-norton
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5819-9134

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

Megan McCuller
administrative point of contact
position: Collections Manager, Non-molluscan Invertebrates
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
11 West Jones Street
Raleigh
27601
NC
US
Telephone: 919.707.9957
email: megan.mcculler@naturalsciences.org
homepage: https://naturalsciences.org/staff/megan-mcculler

Bronwyn Williams
administrative point of contact
position: Research Curator, Non-molluscan Invertebrates
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
11 West Jones Street
Raleigh
27601
NC
US
Telephone: 919-707-8862
email: bronwyn.williams@naturalsciences.org
homepage: https://naturalsciences.org/staff/bronwyn-williams