Description
The Science Museum of the University of Coimbra (MCUC) Crustacean collection consists of approximately 900 and represents over 195 species and subspecies of crustaceans of Portugal. The collection dates between 1890 to 1954, and a few from the Ancient Collection (C.A.) with an unknown date, but probably before 1872.. The collection was organized and cataloged by Rogério Nogueira de Carvalho (Carvalho, 1931, 1933 and 1944) and in 2020 was started an digital inventory by Ana Vieira, José Rosa, Juliana Perrella, Vera Barbosa and Cristina Rufino, continued by Diogo Moreira in 2021 and it was finished in 2022 by Bruno Jesus, David Algarvio, Daniel Marcos and Cristina Rufino. New record numbers were created and most of the scientific names were actualized using the WORMS database (https://www.marinespecies.org/).
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 556 records.
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:
Rufino C (2023): Crustacean Collection of the Science Museum, University of Coimbra, Portugal. v1.2. Science Museum of the University of Coimbra. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.gbif.pt/ipt/resource?r=crustaceancollectionsciencemuseumuniversitycoimbraportugal&v=1.2
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Science Museum of the University of Coimbra. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 5832a560-b88c-40ba-803b-a126da41aa2f. Science Museum of the University of Coimbra publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Portugal.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Publisher ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Senior technician
- Museu da Ciencia, Universidade de Coimbra Laboratorio Chimico Largo Marquês de Pombal
- 965242526
http://orcid.org/https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8496-1399
Geographic Coverage
This dataset includes specimen occurrence records from Portugal, excluding the Madeira and Azores archipelagos. Most of the records are from the marine habitat, comprising 484 records (55.7% of the total) corresponding to 775 specimens (89.2% of the total), marine and brackish habitats with 30 records corresponding to 47 specimens only a few from freshwater and/or brackish habitat and several (32 records and 53 specimens)from terrestrial habitat. Other geographic origins will be added in the future.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
This collection contains specimens from the Subphylum Crustacea, mainly from the Class Malacostraca (6 Orders: Amphipoda, Cumacea, Decapoda, Isopoda, Mysida, Stomatopoda), but also contains specimens from Branchiopoda (1 Order: Notostraca) and Thecostraca (3 Orders: Balanomorpha, Pollicipedomorpha, Scalpellomorpha).
| Subphylum | Crustacea (Crustacean) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | 1880 to present |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | Crustacea |
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| Specimen preservation methods | Alcohol |
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| Curatorial Units | Count 1,000 +/- 200 specimens |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | http://ipt.gbif.pt/ipt/resource?r=crustaceancollectionsciencemuseumuniversitycoimbraportugal |
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