Alabama Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology (Arctos)

Kevin Kocot

doi:10.15468/z4u84w

Alabama Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology (Arctos)

Citation

Alabama Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collection https://arctos.database.museum/collection/ALMNH:Inv https://doi.org/10.15468/z4u84w accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-05-12.

Description

The Invertebrate Zoology Collection contains over 23,000 catalogued lots of marine, freshwater, and terrestrial invertebrates and an estimated 10,000 additional lots of uncatalogued specimens.

Purpose

Education and research.

Sampling Description

Method steps

Additional info

Arctos Data Ownership and Use: http://arctosdb.org/home/data/; http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html

Taxonomic Coverages

This collection includes marine invertebrates, freshwater molluscs (especially Unionida), and terrestrial gastropods.

Annelida
rank: phylum
Arthropoda
rank: phylum
Brachiopoda
rank: phylum
Bryozoa
rank: phylum
Cephalorhyncha
rank: genus
Chaetognatha
rank: phylum
Chordata
rank: phylum
Cnidaria
rank: phylum
Ctenophora
rank: phylum
Echinodermata
rank: phylum
Entoprocta
rank: class
Foraminifera
rank: phylum
Hemichordata
rank: phylum
Kinorhyncha
rank: phylum
Mollusca
rank: phylum
Nematoda
rank: phylum
Nemertea
rank: phylum
Ochrophyta
rank: phylum
Phoronida
rank: phylum
Platyhelminthes
rank: phylum
Porifera
rank: phylum
Sipuncula
rank: phylum
Tardigrada
rank: phylum
Tracheophyta
rank: phylum
Xenacoelomorpha
rank: phylum

Geographic Coverages

Global with particular strength in Alabama, the Gulf of Mexico, and Antarctica.

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Kevin Kocot
originator
position: Curator of Invertebrate Zoology
Alabama Museum of Natural History
Tuscaloosa
Alabama
US
email: kmkocot@ua.edu
homepage: https://almnh.museums.ua.edu/
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8673-2688

Kevin Kocot
metadata author
position: Curator of Invertebrate Zoology
Alabama Museum of Natural History
Tuscaloosa
Alabama
US
email: kmkocot@gmail.com
homepage: https://almnh.museums.ua.edu/
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8673-2688

David Bloom
programmer
position: VertNet Coordinator
VertNet
email: dbloom@vertnet.org
homepage: http://www.vertnet.org

Dusty McDonald
programmer
position: Arctos Database Programmer
Arctos
email: dustymc@gmail.com
homepage: https://arctosdb.org/

Brooke Bogan
point of contact
position: Collections Manager
Alabama Museum of Natural History
email: babogan@ua.edu

Kevin Kocot
administrative point of contact
position: Curator of Invertebrate Zoology
Alabama Museum of Natural History
ALABAM
US
email: kmkocot@ua.edu
homepage: https://almnh.museums.ua.edu/
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8673-2688