The molluscs collection (IM) of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN - Paris) in the southwest Pacific region

Occurrence Specimen
Latest version published by Southwestern Pacific Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) Node on Jun 8, 2020 Southwestern Pacific Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) Node
Publication date:
June 8, 2020
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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Description

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.

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 80,194 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:

GBIF.org (1st February 2017) GBIF Occurrence Download http://doi.org/10.15468/dl.nikkbj

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Southwestern Pacific Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) Node. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has not been registered with GBIF

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

MNHN Museum national d'Histoire naturelle
  • Originator
  • Host organisation
MNHN - Museum national d'Histoire naturelle
  • 57, rue Cuvier
75005 Paris
FR
Simon Chagnoux
  • Metadata Provider
  • Metadata author
MNHN - Museum national d'Histoire naturelle
  • 57, rue Cuvier
75005 Paris
FR
Pierre Lozouet
  • Point Of Contact
  • Correspondant
MNHN - Museum national d'Histoire naturelle
  • 57, rue Cuvier
75005 Paris
FR
Kevin Mackay
  • Publisher
  • OBIS Node Manager
Southwest Pacific OBIS node
  • Private Bag 14-901
6241 Wellington
New Zealand
NZ

Geographic Coverage

Southwest Pacific Ocean

Bounding Coordinates South West [-60, -160], North East [0, 145]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Phylum Mollusca

Bibliographic Citations

  1. 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

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Alternative Identifiers https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?r=mnhn-molluscs