Description
The Ichthyological Collection of the University Museum Bergen houses more than 24000 lots. The vast majority of samples is stored in ethanol. The collection has a focus on samples from the Northeast Atlantic, however, it holds specimens of localities from all around the world including fishes from Antarctica and the Mid-Atlantic ridge (Mar-Eco project 2004) being a valuable reference collection for deep-sea species. The collection is still growing taking in new samples mainly in cooperation with the University’s faculty of Biology, the Institute of Marine Research (Norway), and the University of Tromsø for documenting diversity, changes in diversity, first records from hitherto un-sampled regions and re-collection of species represented by aged specimens lacking a tissue sample. DISCLAIMER: The dataset is curated and will receive updates, please always make sure to download the latest version. The provided data is likely not entirely free of errors. If using (parts of) the data, please carefully check datapoints. In doubt, please contact the responsible for further improvement.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 23,368 records.
1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
University Museum Bergen, Dep. of Natural History, Straube N (2024). Ichthyology Collection, University Museum Bergen, University of Bergen. Version 1.0. University of Bergen. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=fish_collection_uib&v=1.0
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Bergen. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 8c30ff06-3b02-4f53-8f02-a0f6de1f7e71. University of Bergen publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Norway.
Keywords
Occurrence; Ichthyology; fish collection; wet-collection; fish diversity; Specimen; Ichthyology; fish collection; wet-collection; fish diversity
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Curator ●
- Point Of Contact
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7047-1084
- User
Geographic Coverage
The majority of the material was collected from the Northeast Atlantic, however, specimens from all other Oceans are also included.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-60, -160], North East [82, 176.2] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
N/A
| Family | Lampridae, Liparidae, Molidae, Zeidae, Mugilidae, Argentinidae, Agonidae, Rajidae, Gobiesocidae, Callionymidae, Myctophidae, Berycidae, Ogcocephalidae, Xiphiidae, Ammodytidae, Scyliorhinidae, Trachipteridae, Anguillidae, Sternoptychidae, Cyclopteridae, Acipenseridae, Branchiostomidae, Muraenidae, Petromyzontidae, Scorpaenidae, Gobiidae, Triglidae, Stichaeidae, Pholidae, Clupeidae, Squalidae, Cottidae, Umbridae, Lophiidae, Sparidae, Scombridae, Scophthalmidae, Labridae, Chaetodontidae, Etmopteridae, Gasterosteidae, Esocidae, Diodontidae, Syngnathidae, Anarhichadidae, Gadidae, Belonidae, Osmeridae, Salmonidae, Merlucciidae, Pleuronectidae |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1839-03-08 / 2023-02-06 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | Ichthyology Collection, University Museum Bergen |
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The personnel involved in the project:
Collection Data
| Collection Name | Ichthyology Collection, University Museum Bergen |
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| Specimen preservation methods | Formalin, Alcohol |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 8c30ff06-3b02-4f53-8f02-a0f6de1f7e71 |
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| https://ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=fish_collection_uib |