University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Division of Mollusks

Occurrence
Latest version published by University of Michigan Museum of Zoology on Oct 1, 2024 University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
Publication date:
1 October 2024
License:
CC-BY-NC 4.0

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Description

The Mollusk Division incorporates approximately 5 million specimens and has long ranked amongst the most important freshwater and land snail collections in North America. Approximately 251,000 cataloged lots including over 406 holotype specimens and more than 1638 paratype lots are preserved as dry shells, ethanol preserved specimens, frozen tissues, lyophilized tissues, fossil material and radular microscope slide mounts. Mollusks from all regions of the planet are represented, with most being from North America, particularly from southeastern and upper mid‐western USA drainages. With the exception of Monoplacophora and Aplacophora, all extant molluscan classes are represented. The collection includes a number of significant subcollections; Bryant Walker Collection (one of the world’s largest private mollusk collections containing over 100,000 lots and about two million specimens), Royal Ontario Museum Collection [outstanding collection of North American (principally Canadian) freshwater and land mollusks], F. C. Baker Wisconsin Freshwater Mollusk Collection (one of the most extensive North American freshwater mollusk collections), Stelfox Sphaeriid Collection (one of the most important reference collections of cosmopolitan freshwater bivalve family Sphaeriidae), and Lyophilized Tahitian Land Snails (about 1600 freeze‐dried tissue samples of a now largely extinct snail family).

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 220,961 records.

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Occurrence (core)
220961
Multimedia 
243426

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GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 7dd6e9f8-f252-42c9-bd34-221716095973.  University of Michigan Museum of Zoology publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence

Contacts

UMMZ Mollusk Data Group
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Group
UM Museum of Zoology Mollusk Division
Admins LSA IT
  • Metadata Provider
  • User
IT Database Administrator

Geographic Coverage

Global.

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 7dd6e9f8-f252-42c9-bd34-221716095973
https://ipt.lsa.umich.edu/resource?r=ummz_mollusks