Canadian Museum of Nature Annelid Collection
Citation
Gagnon J, Shorthouse D (2019). Canadian Museum of Nature Annelid Collection. Version 1.12. Canadian Museum of Nature. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/b7u3mp accessed via GBIF.org on 2019-08-19.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
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Polychaetacommon name: Marine worms rank: class
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Oligochaetacommon name: Earthworms rank: subclass
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Hirudineacommon 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 Gagnonoriginator
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
David Shorthouse
metadata author
position: Assistant Collections Information Manager
Canadian Museum of Nature
Ottawa
Ontario
CA
email: dshorthouse@nature.ca
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7618-5230
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