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The cnidarians collection (IK) 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 collection of cnidarians, comprising about 80 000 lots, combines old specimens from all oceans. These specimens are preserved in either alcohol, dry, as slides, or in a separate herbaria for some hydroids and sea fans. The oldest specimens (1706-1707) of Hydroids and Octocorallia of the collection are preserved in herbaria made by Sébastien Vaillant. The story is revealed on the label and recalls the big names such as Peron and Lesueur; Savigny; Jean-Baptiste Lamarck; Quoy and Gaimard; Valenciennes; and H. Milne-Edwards and Haime. Generations of scientists have enriched the collection, thanks to naturalist expeditions like that of Egypt (1800-1804), Baudin on the western coast of Australia, the Astrolabe (1837-1840), and the two French Antarctic expeditions in early twentieth century. For forty years, various campaigns in the Atlantic (Thalassa, Biogas ...), the sub-Antarctic (on the Marion Dufresne), the Indo-Pacific (program MUSORSTOM / Deep-Sea Benthos), and the great expeditions (Santo, Vanuatu 2006, Guadeloupe 2012) made for the "Planet revisited" program, enriched the collection. Scientists donate collections made throughout their careers, as is the case of the collections of G. Faure, J. Laborel, M. Pichon, B. Salvat, H. Zibrowius ... Specimens sampled by J. Goy in the Mediterranean, Brazil, and Australia expanded the collection of Jellyfish.

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 28,672 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)
    28672
  • Identification 
    29538
  • Reference 
    10547
  • Multimedia 
    3290
  • 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

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Data as a DwC-A file download 28,672 records in French (2 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

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Rights

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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: b5cdf587-3342-48ec-9130-ba1281d7166f.  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; Cnidaria; Marine; Invertebrates; Zoology; Taxonomy; Specimens; Collections; Types; Specimen

Contacts

Who created the resource:

MNHN
Provider
MNHN

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Aude Andouche
Correspondant
MNHN

Who filled in the metadata:

Simon Chagnoux

Who else was associated with the resource:

Content Provider
Jerôme Mainguy
Content Provider
Cyndie Dupoux
Content Provider
Pierre Lozouet
Content Provider
Sébastien Soubzmaigne
Content Provider
Cyril Chambard

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers
b5cdf587-3342-48ec-9130-ba1281d7166f
http://collections.mnhn.fr/ipt/resource?r=mnhn-ik