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This is a collection amassed primarily by Terry R Hitchings at Canterbury Museum, New Zealand. Mr. Hitchings began collecting, curating, identifying and describing new species in the early 1990s, incorporating the existing Canterbury Museum mayfly collections into this work. From the late 2000s, Mr....
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ftdatacite:10.15468/5ksxu8 2023-06-11T04:06:47+02:00 Canterbury Museum Mayfly Collection ... Dmartin 2021 https://dx.doi.org/10.15468/5ksxu8 https://www.gbif.org/dataset/93e4d24c-92f0-40b7-84e3-ba054886b1c3 en eng Canterbury Museum Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 OCCURRENCE Dataset dataset 2021 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.15468/5ksxu8 2023-06-01T11:54:03Z This is a collection amassed primarily by Terry R Hitchings at Canterbury Museum, New Zealand. Mr. Hitchings began collecting, curating, identifying and describing new species in the early 1990s, incorporating the existing Canterbury Museum mayfly collections into this work. From the late 2000s, Mr. Hitchings son, Timothy R Hitchings, began working with his father on the collection. Their work on the group is ongoing. A project to catalogue the backlog this collection was completed in 2018. The data are well curated, as almost every specimen has grid reference data or some form of co-ordinate data. This collection covers nearly all species of mayflies in New Zealand. Geographic coverage is across the three main islands of New Zealand, with some sub-Antarctic island material. The main focus is on the South Island, as the Hitchings are based in Christchurch. Several of the Mr. Hitchings colleagues collected specimens as part of their own work in freshwater research, which contributed to increased coverage. ... Dataset Antarc* Antarctic DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Antarctic Christchurch ENVELOPE(164.167,164.167,-82.467,-82.467) New Zealand |
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This is a collection amassed primarily by Terry R Hitchings at Canterbury Museum, New Zealand. Mr. Hitchings began collecting, curating, identifying and describing new species in the early 1990s, incorporating the existing Canterbury Museum mayfly collections into this work. From the late 2000s, Mr. Hitchings son, Timothy R Hitchings, began working with his father on the collection. Their work on the group is ongoing. A project to catalogue the backlog this collection was completed in 2018. The data are well curated, as almost every specimen has grid reference data or some form of co-ordinate data. This collection covers nearly all species of mayflies in New Zealand. Geographic coverage is across the three main islands of New Zealand, with some sub-Antarctic island material. The main focus is on the South Island, as the Hitchings are based in Christchurch. Several of the Mr. Hitchings colleagues collected specimens as part of their own work in freshwater research, which contributed to increased coverage. ... |
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