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Canadian Museum of Nature Annelid Collection

Dataset homepage

Citation

Gagnon J, Torgersen J (2023). Canadian Museum of Nature Annelid Collection. Version 1.33. Canadian Museum of Nature. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/b7u3mp accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-05.

Description

The Canadian Museum of Nature's Annelid Collection provides a good representation of marine polychaetes, freshwater leeches and oligochaetes, with more than 65,000 lots, mostly from Canada, including the Arctic regions. This included the John W. Reynolds' Earthworm Collection.

Taxonomic Coverages

  1. Polychaeta
    common name: Marine worms rank: class
  2. Oligochaeta
    common name: Earthworms rank: subclass
  3. Hirudinea
    common name: Leeches rank: subclass

Geographic Coverages

Geographic coverage mostly but not exclusively North America and surrounding waters, with strong emphasis on Canada and US (Oligochaeta and Hirudinea) and Northeast Pacific, Arctic and Northwest Atlantic (Polychaeta).

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Jean-Marc Gagnon
originator
position: Curator, Invertebrate Zoology Collections
Canadian Museum of Nature
Ottawa
Ontario
CA
Telephone: 1-613-364-4066
email: jmgagnon@nature.ca
homepage: https://nature.ca/en/research-collections/science-experts/jean-marc-gagnon
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2778-4215
John Torgersen
metadata author
position: Assistant Collections Information Manager
Canadian Museum of Nature
Ottawa
Ontario
CA
email: jtorgersen@nature.ca
Jean-Marc Gagnon
curator
position: Curator, Invertebrate Zoology Collections
Canadian Museum of Nature
Ottawa
Ontario
CA
Telephone: 1-613-364-4066
email: jmgagnon@nature.ca
homepage: https://nature.ca/en/research-collections/science-experts/jean-marc-gagnon
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2778-4215
Jean-Marc Gagnon
administrative point of contact
position: Curator, Invertebrate Zoology Collections
Canadian Museum of Nature
Ottawa
Ontario
CA
Telephone: 1-613-364-4066
email: jmgagnon@nature.ca
homepage: https://nature.ca/en/research-collections/science-experts/jean-marc-gagnon
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2778-4215
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