Ichthyology Collection, University Museum Bergen, University of Bergen

Occurrence Specimen
Latest version published by University of Bergen on Feb 20, 2024 University of Bergen
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https://www.uib.no/en/naturalhistory/150359/fish-ichthyology
Publication date:
20 February 2024
Published by:
University of Bergen
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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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.

Occurrence (core)
23368
MeasurementOrFacts 
35767

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

University Museum Bergen, Dep. of Natural History
  • Allégaten 41
5007 Bergen
Vestland
NO
Nicolas Straube
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Curator ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • Curator
University Museum Bergen
  • Allégaten 41
5007 Bergen
Vestland
NO
  • +47 55 58 29 64
Bjørn Olsson
  • User
  • Collection manager
University Museum Bergen
  • Allégaten 41
5007 Bergen
Vestland
NO
  • +47 920 94 650

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]

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

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1839-03-08 / 2023-02-06

Project Data

No Description available

Title Ichthyology Collection, University Museum Bergen

The personnel involved in the project:

Nicolas Straube
  • Curator

Collection Data

Collection Name Ichthyology Collection, University Museum Bergen
Specimen preservation methods Formalin,  Alcohol

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 8c30ff06-3b02-4f53-8f02-a0f6de1f7e71
https://ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=fish_collection_uib