Specimens of marine invertebrates collected in coastal areas by environmental monitoring (1973–2000), housed at the University Museum of Bergen

Sampling event Specimen
Latest version published by University of Bergen on Jan 14, 2026 University of Bergen
Publication date:
14 January 2026
Published by:
University of Bergen
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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Description

Specimens collected and reported by the company SAM-marin (now STIM) from various environmental monitoring surveys in coastal areas and fjords from Agder to Nordland County. The material was collected in the years 1973-2000 and later deposited at the University Museum of Bergen (UMB) as documentation of species records and as a resource for research in biosystematics. Datasets from environmental monitoring are important documentation of species occurrences in time and space, and such datasets are of particular interest when specimens have been deposited in Museum collections as this will allow for future revisions and updates of species occurrence data. The material is stored as bulk samples of main taxon (e.g. polychaeta) from a given locality, typically a grab sample, and represents an important collection, although not with the same status as the traditional taxonomic Museum collection.

Data Records

The data in this sampling event 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 1,449 records.

3 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.

Event (core)
1449
Occurrence 
81958
MeasurementOrFacts 
1244
Reference 
908

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:

UiB Invertebrate collection, SAM-Marin Uni Research Miljø, Kongsrud J A (2026). Specimens of marine invertebrates collected in coastal areas by environmental monitoring (1973–2000), housed at the University Museum of Bergen. Version 1.7. University of Bergen. Samplingevent dataset. https://ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=umb_envmon_shore&v=1.7

Rights

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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: 1f8777b3-e23d-4255-a8b2-76d974c4f5fd.  University of Bergen publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Norway.

Keywords

Samplingevent; Specimen

Contacts

UiB Invertebrate collection
  • Originator
University of Bergen
5020 Bergen
NO
SAM-Marin Uni Research Miljø
  • Originator
Uni Research AS
NO
Jon Anders Kongsrud
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Point Of Contact
University Museum of Bergen
5020 Bergen
NO
Katrine Kongshavn
  • Point Of Contact
University Museum of Bergen
5020 Bergen
NO
Vidar Bakken
  • Programmer
GBIF Norway
0592 Oslo
NO

Geographic Coverage

Norway

Bounding Coordinates South West [57.327, -7.031], North East [73.428, 33.047]

Taxonomic Coverage

Marine invertebrates from many phyla

Class Holothuroidea, Hydrozoa, Hexapoda, Stenolaemata, Ostracoda, Clitellata, Polychaeta, Hexacorallia, Phaeophyceae, Arachnida, Myxini, Sagittoidea, Bivalvia, Ascidiacea, Leptocardii, Octocorallia, Pycnogonida, Rhynchonellata, Solenogastres, Caudofoveata, Gastropoda, Demospongiae, Holocephali, Craniata, Thecostraca, Enteropneusta, Scaphopoda, Magnoliopsida, Gymnolaemata, Elasmobranchii, Copepoda, Calcarea, Echinoidea, Polyplacophora, Scyphozoa, Cephalopoda, Branchiopoda, Ophiuroidea, Malacostraca, Asteroidea, Crinoidea, Teleostei

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1973-03-27 / 2003-06-20

Additional Metadata

Acknowledgements
Alternative Identifiers 1f8777b3-e23d-4255-a8b2-76d974c4f5fd
https://ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=umb_envmon_shore