Marine data from the Bernice P. Bishop Museum

Occurrence Specimen
Latest version published on 21 March 2023
Publication date:
21 March 2023
Published by:
No organisation
License:
CC0 1.0

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Description

The Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, designated the Hawaiʻi State Museum of Natural and Cultural History, is a museum of history and science located in the Kalihi district of Honolulu on the Hawaiian island of O’ahu. Founded in 1889, it is the largest museum in Hawai’i and is home to one of the world’s largest collections of natural history material from the Pacific region, with approximately 21 million specimens. The main collections include Entomology, Malacology, Botany, Ichthyology, Vertebrate Zoology (Birds, Mammals, Amphibians and Reptiles) and Marine Invertebrates.The filter criteria for this dataset restricts the complete dataset to only organisms taken from marine environments, and only records that have geo-reference coordinates assigned to them. The data consist primarily of vouchered specimens in the Ichthyology, Marine Invertebrate, and Algae collections of BPBM.

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 40,579 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:

Pyle R (2016). Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Version 8.1. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/s6ctus accessed via GBIF.org on 2018-11-16.

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.

GBIF Registration

This resource has not been registered with GBIF

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence

Contacts

Richard Pyle
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • Database Coordinator
Bernice P. Bishop Museum
  • 1525 Bernice Street
96817 Honolulu
Hawaii
US
  • 808-848-4115
David Bloom
  • Programmer
  • VertNet Programmer
VertNet
US
John Wieczorek
  • Programmer
  • Information Architect
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley
  • 3101 VLSB
94720 Berkeley
CA
US
Robert Whitton
  • Programmer
  • Consultant
Technical Innovations, Inc.
Kaaawa
Hawaii
US
Arnold Suzumoto
  • Curator
  • Collections Manager
Bishop Museum
  • 1525 Bernice Street
96817 Honolulu
Hawaii
US
  • 808-848-4130
Holly Bolick
  • Curator
  • Database Coordinator
Bernice P. Bishop Museum
  • 1525 Bernice Street
96817 Honolulu
Hawaii
US
  • 808-848-4115

Geographic Coverage

Primarily focused on the tropical Indo-Pacific region, with an emphasis on Oceania.

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

Recent and fossil plants, algae, fungi and animals.

Kingdom Animalia (Animals), Fungi (Fungi), Plantae (Plants, Algae)

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Alternative Identifiers https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?r=bernicepbishopmuseum