Field Museum of Natural History (Zoology) Invertebrate Collection

Sharon Grant1, Kalina Griffin-Jakymec1

1 Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 S Lake Shore Drive, 60605, Chicago, United States

Corresponding author(s): Sharon Grant (sgrant@fieldmuseum.org), Kalina Griffin-Jakymec (kgriffin-jakymec@fieldmuseum.org)

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Abstract

Established in 1938, the Division of Invertebrates is in charge of all invertebrate groups except insects and other non-marine arthropods. The first curator of this Division was Fritz Haas, formerly of the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt, Germany. Haas (1938 - 1969) and his successor Alan Solem (1957 - 1990) built massive mollusk collections, particularly strong in unionid bivalves and terrestrial snails, reflecting their respective research interests. Current curators Rüdiger Bieler (1990 -) and Janet Voight (1990 -) focus their research and collection-building on marine molluscan groups. The varied curatorial research interests, the collecting efforts of past and present collections managers (e.g., John Slapcinsky and Jochen Gerber), and acquisitions of private collections and "orphan collections"

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen

General description

Additional information: https://www.fieldmuseum.org/field-museum-natural-history-conditions-and-suggested-norms-use-collections-data-and-images

Data published through GBIF: https://fmipt.fieldmuseum.org/ipt/resource?r=fmnh_invertebrates

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Global
Coordinates: 90°0'0''S and 90°0'0''N Latitude; 180°0'0''W and 180°0'0''E Longitude 

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Field Museum of Natural History (Zoology) Invertebrate Collection
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Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://fmipt.fieldmuseum.org/ipt/archive.do?r=fmnh_invertebrates
Publication date of data: 2020-02-05
Language: English
Licences of use: Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2012-07-11
Hierarchy level: Dataset