GBIF: Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History - Freshwater mussels
Citation
Hayden H (2015). GBIF: Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History - Freshwater mussels. Canadian node of the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS Canada). Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/al0unx accessed via GBIF.org on 2018-12-11.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
- 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.
- In 2014 this resource was removed from the OBIS Canada DiGIR server and copied to the OBIS Canada IPT.
- The DwC field dynamicproperties is null for this dataset.
Additional info
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Geographic Coverages
majority of museum samples are from Nova Scotia
Bibliographic Citations
Contacts
Helen Haydenoriginator
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
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