Description
Copyright © 2013 President and Fellows of Harvard College, Some Rights Reserved. A subset of Museum of Comparative Zoology data, filtered for the VERTNET project. The Museum of Comparative Zoology was founded in 1859 on the concept that collections are an integral and fundamental component of zoological research and teaching. This more than 150-year-old commitment remains a strong and proud tradition for the MCZ. The present-day MCZ contains over 21-million specimens in ten research collections which comprise one of the world's richest and most varied resources for studying the diversity of life. The museum serves as the primary repository for zoological specimens collected by past and present Harvard faculty-curators, staff and associates conducting research around the world. As a premier university museum and research institution, the specimens and their related data are available to researchers of the scientific and museum community.
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 969,784 records.
1 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)
- Multimedia
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.
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology (2013): Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Subset of data for VERTNET. Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. Dataset/Occurrence. doi:10.15468/p5rupv
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Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. Copyright © 2013 President and Fellows of Harvard College, Some Rights Reserved. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License.
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Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence
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Taxonomic Coverage
Vertebrates and other chordates. All names in MCZbase are disclaimed for nomenclatural purposes.
Kingdom | Animalia (Animals) |
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Phylum | Chordata |
Class | Aves (Birds), Reptilia (Reptiles) |
Temporal Coverage
Start Date / End Date | 1679-01-01 / 2012-01-30 |
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Additional Metadata
The MCZ does not guarantee the accuracy of these data. Individual researchers should verify individual records by making direct reference to corresponding museum specimens. For terms and conditions of use, see: https://mcz.harvard.edu/user-agreement
Alternative Identifiers | http://digir.mcz.harvard.edu/ipt/resource?r=mcz_subset_for_vertnet |
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