Australian Museum Ichthyology Collection
Latest version published by CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere on May 28, 2018
As one would expect, the Fish Research Collection contains many adult and larval fish specimens. These are used by researchers worldwide.
The collection contains specimens from all around the world, but has large holdings of fishes from the deepsea and Indo-Pacific reefs as well as larval fishes, gobies and freshwater fishes from New South Wales.
Of particular importance are the fish type specimens. These are the specimens upon which the original scientific description of the relevant species was based. The Australian Museum fish type collection is one of the most important in the world, containing over 11,000 specimens, some of which date back well into the 1800s.
The majority of the collection has been fixed in 10% formaldehyde then transferred to 70% ethyl alcohol for long term storage. In recent years many frozen and alcohol-fixed tissues have been added to the collection for use in genetic studies.
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 167,867 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.
Downloads
Download the latest version of this resource data as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) or the resource metadata as EML or RTF:
| Data as a DwC-A file | download 167,867 records in English (6 MB) - Update frequency: continually |
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| Metadata as an EML file | download in English (7 KB) |
| Metadata as an RTF file | download in English (7 KB) |
Versions
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
McGrouther M (2017): Australian Museum Ichthyology Collection. v1.1. CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ogc-act.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=am_ichthyology&v=1.1
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License.
GBIF Registration
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Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen
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Geographic Coverage
The collection contains specimens from all around the world, but has large holdings of fishes from the deepsea and Indo-Pacific reefs as well as larval fishes, gobies and freshwater fishes from New South Wales.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-81.4, -179.9], North East [86, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Class | Actinopterygii, Elasmobranchii, Holocephali |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1858-12-17 / 2016-10-08 |
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Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS
| Alternative Identifiers | http://ogc-act.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=am_ichthyology |
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