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The molluscs collection (IM) of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN - Paris) in the southwest Pacific region
MNHN
Museum national d'Histoire naturelle
MNHN - Museum national d'Histoire naturelle
Host organisation
57, rue Cuvier
Paris
75005
FR
http://www.mnhn.fr
Simon
Chagnoux
MNHN - Museum national d'Histoire naturelle
Metadata author
57, rue Cuvier
Paris
75005
FR
gbifprovider@mnhn.fr
http://www.mnhn.fr
Kevin
Mackay
Southwest Pacific OBIS node
OBIS Node Manager
Private Bag 14-901
Wellington
New Zealand
6241
NZ
kevin.mackay@niwa.co.nz
http://nzobis.niwa.co.nz
publisher
2018-11-15
eng
This dataset is a subset of the mollusc collection of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN - Paris) extracted from GBIF and filtered for the southwest Pacific region and for marine species only.
The full collection of marine, terrestrial and freshwater molluscs is primarily a scientific but also a historical and museological collection. It includes about 800 000 lots, totaling approximately 5 million specimens from around the world. These specimens are preserved as either dry collection (dried animals, shells) or in alcohol. The type collection contains 11 000 types of nominal species. The collection dates back to Michel Adanson (shells of Senegal, 1757) and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. It then increased through donations of amateur collectors, institutional legacies and purchases, and the activity of scientists from both the Museum and other institutions. This diversity of sources continues today, but large expeditions have been very important from the late eighteenth century through to the colonial era, a role they continue to play to this day. The "Tropical Deep-Sea benthos" oceanographic expeditions (formerly MUSORSTOM), launched in the early 1980s to sample the benthos of the tropical South and West-Pacific, have resulted in the collection becoming the best in the world for deep-sea faunas (100-1.500 m bathymetric zone). It is particularly rich in micromolluscs. Historical sections of the collection contain representatives of terrestrial and freshwater molluscs that are now extinct.
Occurrence
GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type.xml
Specimen
GBIF Dataset Subtype Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_subtype.xml
marine, harvested by iOBIS
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Southwest Pacific Ocean
-160
145
0
-60
phylum
Mollusca
irregular
Pierre
Lozouet
MNHN - Museum national d'Histoire naturelle
Correspondant
57, rue Cuvier
Paris
75005
FR
http://www.mnhn.fr
2017-02-01T07:00:52.513+13:00
dataset
GBIF.org (1st February 2017) GBIF Occurrence Download http://doi.org/10.15468/dl.nikkbj
MNHN - Museum national d'Histoire naturelle: The molluscs collection (IM) of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN - Paris): The molluscs collection (IM) of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN - Paris). 81,992 records from this dataset included at time of download doi:10.15468/xgoxap
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