IMIS - Marine Research Groups

Canadian Museum of Nature - Fish Collection

Citation

Gagnon, J.M., Frank, P. 2004. Canadian Museum of Nature - Fish Collection. Canadian Museum of Nature Digital Collections. OBIS Canada, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, Version 1, Digital, retrieved from http://iobis.org/. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/4126

Access data

Availability:

This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description

This digital database contains an OBIS formatted version of all fish records held at the Canadian Museum of Nature and collected from Canada and the United States as well as from associated marine water masses such as the Atlantic, the Pacific and the Arctic Oceans. It excludes all other records from countries and oceans not listed above. Earliest specimens date from 1863. 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. OBIS Schema fields implemented in this data set are: Res_Name, ScientificName, InstitutionCode, CatalogNumber, Latitude, Longitude, CollectionCode, DateLastModified, BasisOfRecord, YearCollected, MonthCollected, DayCollected, Genus, MinimumDepth, MaximumDepth, Species, Class, Kingdom, OrderName, Phylum, Family, ScientificNameAuthor, Collector, Locality, Country, Ocean, IndividualCount, State, County, CollectorNumber, IdentifiedBy, PreparationType, Subspecies, YearIdentified, MonthIdentified, DayIdentified, TypeStatus, Seks.

Scope

Themes:

Biology > Fish

Keywords:

Marine/Coastal, Fresh water, Brackish water, A, Atlantic, ANW, Canada, ANW, USA, I, Pacific, PN, Arctic, Pisces

Geographical coverage

A, Atlantic [Marine Regions]

ANW, Canada [Marine Regions]

ANW, USA [Marine Regions]

I, Pacific [Marine Regions]

PN, Arctic [Marine Regions]

Taxonomic coverage