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GBIF: Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History - Freshwater mussels

Dataset homepage

Citation

Hebda, A.(2014). Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History - Freshwater mussels. Version 1 In OBIS Canada Digital Collections. Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada. Published by OBIS, Digital http://www.iobis.org/. Accessed on –INSERT DATE https://doi.org/10.15468/al0unx accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-12-03.

Description

This is the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History collection of freshwater mussels. It contains mostly Nova Scotia material but there is also representation from New Brunswick, Newfoundland, the Northwest Territories, and other parts of North America. Temporally, specimens were collected from 1895 to 2009. The dataset was developed from the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History (NSMNH) - Museum Information Management System (MIMS) as an electronic catalogue of specimen and collecting information.

Purpose

These data are for display on the OBIS portal and associated mapping programs and for download to personal computers for ad-hoc end-user analysis.

Sampling Description

Study Extent

This is the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History database for marine organisms, including birds, mammals, and fishes. It contains mostly Nova Scotia material but there is also representation from New Brunswick, Newfoundland, the Northwest Territories, and other parts of North America.

Sampling

The dataset was developed from the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History (NSMNH) - Museum Information Management System (MIMS) as an electronic catalogue of specimen and collecting information.

Quality Control

Scientific names listed in the source database species list have been mapped to recognized standards - marine taxa have been mapped to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). The respective codes(WoRMS AphiaIDs) have been included in this resource in the scientificNameID field as LSIDs.

Method steps

  1. This resource was created by the data provider for OBIS Canada. Records were downloaded from the source database and and an OBIS view of the collection was created. DwC fields were populated after consultation between the resource creator and the OBIS Canada data management team.
  2. In 2014 this resource was removed from the OBIS Canada DiGIR server and copied to the OBIS Canada IPT.
  3. The DwC field dynamicproperties is null for this dataset.

Additional info

Access Constraints: none Use Constraints: Acknowledge the use of specific records from contributing databases in the form appearing in the 'Citation' field thereof (if any); and acknowledge the use of the OBIS facility. For information purposes, email to info@iobis.org the full citation of any publication made (printed or electronic) that cites OBIS or any constituent part. Recognize the limitations of data in OBIS. See http://www.iobis.org/data/policy/disclaimer for more details For OBIS Schema concept details see http://www.iobis.org/node/304 Distribution Distribution Media: HTTP Distribution Format: OBIS Schema Fees: None

Taxonomic Coverages

Geographic Coverages

majority of museum samples are from Nova Scotia

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Davis, Derek S. 2007. Freshwater Mussels of Nova Scotia. Nova Scotia Museum, Curatorial Report #98. https://ojs.library.dal.ca/NSM/article/view/4018 -

Contacts

Helen Hayden
originator
position: OBIS Canada data manager
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Dartmouth
B2Y 4A2
Nova Scotia
CA
email: helen.hayden@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Helen Hayden
metadata author
position: OBIS Canada data manager
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Dartmouth
B2Y 4A2
Nova Scotia
CA
email: helen.hayden@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
OBIS Canada
publisher
position: data management team
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Dartmouth
B2Y 4A2
Nova Scotia
CA
email: mary.kennedy@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Helen Hayden
administrative point of contact
position: OBIS Canada data manager
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Dartmouth
B2Y 4A2
Nova Scotia
CA
email: helen.hayden@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
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