Description
The terrestrial and liminic invertebrates systematic collection at the NTNU University Museum dates back to activities initiated by Bishop Johan Ernst Gunnerus in the 1760's and objects from Bjarne Lysholm’s collection of Coleoptera from around 1880-1939. The bulk of the collection dates from the 1960's and up to today and includes the Lepidoptera collection of Carl Fredrik Lühr and Runar Krogen, the Coleoptera collections of Karl Erik Zachariassen and Dagfinn Refseth. A recent acquisition of approximately 160 000 identified specimens came from Frode Ødegaard’s collection previously hosted at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research. Today's collection covers most of the major groups of invertebrates with Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, Diptera and Hymenoptera as the largest parts of the collections (approximately 40 %, 20 %, 10 % and 7 % respectively in 2017). Some groups are overrepresented compared to others. This reflects the taxonomic expertise among the staff since the first regular employee in the 1840's and donations of private collections. The collection includes objects from all other continents except the Antarctica. Examples from other parts of the world are chironomids from America, Africa, Europe and Asia, a historic circumpolar collection of Coleoptera. Coleoptera from Central America, Australia, southern Europe, Africa and Papua New Guinea. There are also Lepidoptera from Malawi and terrestrial molluscs from Madeira, Cuba and some other countries.
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 259,904 records.
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:
Hårsaker K, Aspaas A M, Ekrem T, Stur E, Ødegaard F, Kjærstad G, Finstad A G (2024). Terrestrial and limnic invertebrates systematic collection, NTNU University Museum. Version 1.1573. Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=trh_terrestrial_limnic_invertebrates&v=1.1573
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Norwegian University of Science and Technology. 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: 1bec5de3-758c-4ed2-ab13-1597601ad07a. Norwegian University of Science and Technology publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Norway.
Keywords
Occurrence; Occurrence
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
Worldwide
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
All major terrestrial and limnic invertebrate groups., All major terrestrial and limnic invertebrate groups.
| Phylum | Mollusca |
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| Class | Arachnida, Crustacea |
| Order | Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera, Collembola, Odonata, Hemiptera, Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, Trichoptera |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1770-01-01 / 2020-01-01 |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 1bec5de3-758c-4ed2-ab13-1597601ad07a |
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| https://ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=trh_terrestrial_limnic_invertebrates |