Description
The invertebrate collection is a collection that was established in 2023 by reorganizing the invertebrate collections at NHMO. It includes parts of the former helminth and crustacean collections. The collection includes all invertebrate groups except Panarthropoda, Mollusca, Bryozoa, Brachiopoda, and Phoronida. In total, the collection is responsible for 25 major invertebrate taxa (23 are known as phyla and two as subphyla). Originating from the museum's research history, the collection has several different main focuses. One taxon of research interest is polychaete worms (Annelida). Another group is three major parasitic groups. Haptor worms (Monogenea, Gyrodactylus) and flukes (Digenea, Phyllodistomum) infecting fishes are two groups and roundworms (Nematoda, Elaphostrongylus) infecting deer (Cervidae) is another. Cnidarians and echinoderms also form large groups in the collection. In addition, many researchers over the years have collected other material from both freshwater and marine areas in Norway and several other countries. There is also material from several expeditions from the 19th and 20th centuries. The oldest material dates to the collecting activities of Michael Sars.
The collection comprises approximately 15,000 catalogued objects. In addition, there are uncatalogued objects (approximately 8,000 specimens) and also unsorted material from various expeditions and projects. The majority of this is alcohol-preserved material (wet collections). Additionally, approx. 800 catalogued microscopy slides (there are also several thousand uncatalogued slides as reference material from project work) are part of the collection. Over 265 species are first descriptions (type material) with 410 specimens.
All accessioned specimens have been digitized and are partly available on GBIF. The rest will soon be made available. The collection is used by the museum's researchers and students, and by researchers from Norway and abroad who either borrow material or visit the museum as guest researchers. The is a source for local, national and international research. In addition, objects in the collection are made available for DNA-based research such as genome sequencing. This will be particularly important in view of the new large, global genome projects and the fact that many species will only be possible to sequence from museum material. The latter is particularly demanding for material from wet collections.
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 9,157 records.
5 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.
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.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Struck T, Rønning A, Johannessen L E (2023). NHMO Helminth collection. Version 1.1. University of Oslo. Occurrence dataset. https://corema.ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=nhmo-helminth&v=1.1
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Oslo. 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: 9fdf31e5-8a56-4b65-86ce-acd8170eab97. University of Oslo publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Norway.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
The geographic scope is global and includes samples from most continents and seas. The main focus is on Norway and its adjacent seas.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
The collection covers and accepts specimens and species from several invertebrate phyla and subphyla. It is the collection of NHMO with the largest systematic and taxonomic breadth of all collections. The collection comprises 23 phyla and two subphyla, including at least 57 orders, 176 families, 482 genera and 806 species, which have been digitized. Phyla Porifera, Cnidaria, Placozoa, Ctenophora, Xenacoelomorpha, Chaetognatha, Rhombozoa, Gnathostomulida, Micrognathozoa, Rotifera (syn. Syndermata), Gastrotricha, Platyhelminthes, Cycliophora, Nemertea, Annelida, Entoprocta (syn. Kamptozoa), Kinorhyncha, Loricifera, Priapulida, Nematoda, Nematomorpha, Hemichordata, Echinodermata Subphyla Tunicata (syn. Urochordata), Cephalochordata (syn. Acrania)
| Phylum | Annelida (Annelids), Chaetognatha (Chaetognaths), Cnidaria (Cnidarians), Entoprocta (Entoprocts), Hemichordata (Hemichordates), Nematoda (Nematodes), Nematomorpha (Horsehair worms), Nemertea (Ribbon worms), Platyhelminthes (Flatworms), Porifera (Sponges), Priapulida (Priapulid worms), Ctenophora (Comb jellies), Cycliophora (Cycliophors), Echinodermata (Echinoderms), Gastrotricha (Gastrotrichs), Gnathostomulida (Jaw worms), Kinorhyncha (Kinorhynchs), Loricifera (Loricifers), Micrognathozoa (Micrognathozoans), Placozoa (Placozoans), Rhombozoa (Rhombozoans), Rotifera (Rotifers), Xenacoelomorpha (Xenacoelomorphans) |
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| Subphylum | Tunicata (Tunicates), Cephalochordata (Cephalochordates) |
Temporal Coverage
| Formation Period | 1839-current |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 9fdf31e5-8a56-4b65-86ce-acd8170eab97 |
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| https://corema.ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=nhmo-hm |