82e68d5f-455a-41b1-ae98-9a3dfde60c66 https://corema.ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=o_lophophorate NHMO Lophophorata collection Lee Hsiang Liow Natural History Museum, University of Oslo Professor
Natural History Museum, P.O. Box 1172 Blindern Oslo NO-0318 NO
l.h.liow@nhm.uio.no 0000-0002-3732-6069 Ann-Helén Rønning Natural History Museum, University of Oslo Collection manager
Natural History Museum, P.O. Box 1172 Blindern Oslo NO-0318 NO
a.h.ronning@nhm.uio.no 0000-0002-6748-7867 Mali Ramsfjell Natural History Museum, University of Oslo Technician
Oslo NO-0318 NO
m.h.ramsfjell@nhm.uio.no 0000-0002-2095-902X Lee Hsiang Liow Natural History Museum, University of Oslo Professor
Natural History Museum, P.O. Box 1172 Blindern Oslo NO-0318 NO
l.h.liow@nhm.uio.no 0000-0002-3732-6069 Ann-Helén Rønning Natural History Museum, University of Oslo Collection manager
Natural History Museum, P.O. Box 1172 Blindern Oslo NO-0318 NO
a.h.ronning@nhm.uio.no 0000-0002-6748-7867 Mali Ramsfjell Natural History Museum, University of Oslo
Oslo NO-0318 NO
m.h.ramsfjell@nhm.uio.no 0000-0002-2095-902X Lars Erik Johannessen Natural History Museum, University of Oslo Database manager
Natural History Museum, P.O. Box 1172 Blindern Oslo NO-0318 NO
l.e.johannessen@nhm.uio.no 0000-0001-5981-9190 Rukaya Johaadien r.s.johaadien@nhm.uio.no user 2026-04-22 eng The digitized Lophophorata collection presented was established in 2025 and will continue to be populated by NHMO’s holdings of the Phyla Bryozoa, Brachiopoda and Phoronida. Several of NHMO’s historical collections from the Dannevig expeditions (1950’s), the Fram 2 expedition (early 1898-1902), and the Norwegian North-Atlantic Expedition (1876-1878), first worked on, among others, by the marine biologist Immanuel Vigeland, nephew of the more famous Gustav Vigeland, and the well-known Ole Nordgaard, are available here. Naturally, material from the Oslofjord, starting from the 1910’s, notably collected by Martit and Bengt Christiansen (Drøbakinnsamlingene, 1950’s) are also included. In addition, voucher specimens from global sequencing efforts, (early 2020's) funded by the European Research Council (ERC), spearheaded by researchers from the NHMO (Evolution and Paleobiology, EPA) from more recent collecting efforts are also represented here.Currently this digital collection is biased towards marine Bryozoa (90%), reflecting not just the known extant diversity of lophophorates (there are 6000+ described  species of living bryozoan but only 400+ species of living brachiopods), but also the research interest of NHMO, in part supported by Artsdatabanken (project NorDigBryo, 2023-2025). There are also freshwater Bryozoa from across Norway collected by Jan Økland. About 60% of this collection is preserved in ethanol, while the rest are dried specimens, some on microscopy slides, as many of these animals are small. Occurrence GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type_2015-07-10.xml Occurrence GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type.xml Specimen GBIF Dataset Subtype Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_subtype.xml This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-4.0.html CC-BY-4.0 https://corema.ipt.gbif.no/archive.do?r=o_lophophorate More than a third of this collection is from Norway, including collections from the Oslofjord, North Sea, Barents Sea, Norwegian Sea and Skagerrak. However, there is also fair representation from several global regionals including New Zealand /Australia, Antarctica and Canada. -180 180 90 -90 The phylum Bryozoa is represented by more than 100 families, the better represented ones being cheilostome families Calloporidae, Candidae, Bugulidae and Smittinidae, and the phylactolamate family Plumatellidae. The phylum Brachiopoda is represented by nine families, notably Craniidae, Cancellothyrididae and Zeilleriidae. The curret collection lacks Phoronida. phylum Bryozoa Bryozoa phylum Brachiopoda Brachiopods phylum Phoronida Phoronids (horseshoe worms) weekly Lee Hsiang Liow Natural History Museum, University of Oslo Professor
Natural History Museum, P.O. Box 1172 Blindern Oslo NO-0318 NO
l.h.liow@nhm.uio.no 0000-0002-3732-6069 Ann-Helén Rønning Natural History Museum, University of Oslo Collection manager
Natural History Museum, P.O. Box 1172 Blindern Oslo NO-0318 NO
a.h.ronning@nhm.uio.no 0000-0002-6748-7867 Mali Ramsfjell Natural History Museum, University of Oslo
Oslo NO-0318 NO
m.h.ramsfjell@nhm.uio.no 0000-0002-2095-902X 2025-11-28T09:52:25.044+00:00 dataset Liow L H, Rønning A, Ramsfjell M, Johannessen L E (2026). NHMO Lophophorata collection. Version 1.9. University of Oslo. Occurrence dataset. https://corema.ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=o_lophophorate&v=1.9 1828-current 82e68d5f-455a-41b1-ae98-9a3dfde60c66/v1.9.xml