Nova Scotia Museum - Marine Birds, Mammals, and Fishes ...

This is the Nova Scotia Museum database for marine organisms, including birds, mammals, and fishes. It contains mostly Nova Scotia material but there is also representation from New Brunswick, Newfoundland, the Northwest Territories, and other parts of North America. The ichthyology collection is th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hebda, Andrew
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: Canadian node of the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS Canada) 2015
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.15468/fnz3ch
https://www.gbif.org/dataset/83ab0f8e-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a
Description
Summary:This is the Nova Scotia Museum database for marine organisms, including birds, mammals, and fishes. It contains mostly Nova Scotia material but there is also representation from New Brunswick, Newfoundland, the Northwest Territories, and other parts of North America. The ichthyology collection is the most extensive with over 2800 specimens. Temporally, specimens were collected from 1873 to 2002. The dataset was developed from the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History (NSMNH) - Museum Information Management System (MIMS) as an electronic catalogue of specimen and collecting information. This resource contains only the georeferenced records. ...