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The echinoderm collection (IE) of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN - Paris)

Latest version published by MNHN - Museum national d'Histoire naturelle on Mar 20, 2024 MNHN - Museum national d'Histoire naturelle

The aim is to provide a general view of the echinoderm collection of the Paris Museum, which is primarily a scientific collection. The naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, one of the founders of the Theory of Evolution, was the first to really establish the collection of echinoderms at the Paris Museum. There are both dry and alcohol-preserved lots. Some sea cucumber specimens are preserved as microscopic preparations on slides. The number of lots is estimated at 500,000, of which 0.4% are types. Echinoderms have been collected in all oceans, at all latitudes. The largest numbers of specimens were collected relatively recently in the Indo-West Pacific. Echinoderms live exclusively in marine waters and at all depths. For 25 years intensive research programs have permitted huge collections to be obtained, especially from the Indo-Pacific and Antarctic regions. Most of the data entered so far are from these regions.

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 65,314 records. 4 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

  • Occurrence (core)
    65314
  • Identification 
    65753
  • Reference 
    5688
  • Multimedia 
    3597
  • Identifier
    0

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 65,314 records in French (4 MB) - Update frequency: unknown
Metadata as an EML file download in English (5 KB)
Metadata as an RTF file download in English (6 KB)

Versions

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is MNHN - Museum national d'Histoire naturelle. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: b568aebb-b2c8-4dd2-8a59-ab74d50f8640.  MNHN - Museum national d'Histoire naturelle publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF France.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Echinoderm; Echinodermata; Marine; Invertebrates; Zoology; Taxonomy; Specimens; Collections; Types

Contacts

Who created the resource:

MNHN
Provider
MNHN

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Nadia Ameziane
Correspondant
MNHN

Who filled in the metadata:

Simon Chagnoux

Who else was associated with the resource:

Content Provider
Nadia Ameziane
Content Provider
Sébastien Soubzmaigne
Content Provider
Marc Éleaume
Content Provider
Tim O'Hara
Content Provider
Pierre Lozouet

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers b568aebb-b2c8-4dd2-8a59-ab74d50f8640
http://collections.mnhn.fr/ipt/resource?r=mnhn-ie