Description
The University of Kansas Ichthyology frozen tissue collection continues to expand rapidly and has broad representation of both marine and freshwater fish diversity - 11,000 individual tissue samples from 2384 taxa (297 families and 1077 genera) and 38 countries (Australia, Belize, Ethiopia, Fiji, Nepal, Seychelles, South Africa and Tonga etc., as well as oceanic localities). The collections and the scope of research activities in the division continue to grow due to the ongoing activities of ichthyology staff and students.</br></br> The collection is used by national and international researchers as well as by state and federal agencies. The Division of Ichthyology is designated as a Regional Center in the Midwest and Great Plains Regions (Collette & Lachner 1976, Copeia 1976: 625-642; Poss and Collette 1995, Copeia 1995: 48-70) and is among the top twenty ichthyological collections in the country. Almost 60% of the specimens in the collection are from the Great Plains Region. The collection is an important resource for anyone interested in the region's fishes. The data concerning these faunas are not extensively duplicated by other ichthyological collections.</br></br> The tissue collection comprises tissue samples originally collected in liquid nitrogen, DMSO and ethanol and stored in state-of-the-art liquid nitrogen dewars at -170°C. The tissues are made up mostly of muscle tissue but also includes, liver and other internal organs, fin clips and whole specimens. A large proportion of our collection has vouchers held either at KU or at other collections. The provenance of these vouchers is indicated in the database</br></br>
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 11,432 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:
University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute Ichthyology Collection
Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute. 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: 56caf05f-1364-4f24-85f6-0c82520c2792. University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
fish; ichthyology; tissue; frozen; cryogenic; Specimen; Occurrence; Occurrence
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Collection Manager
- 1345 Jayhawk Blvd.
- +01 (785) 864-3863
- Curator
- Curator
- 1345 Jayhawk Blvd
- +01 (785) 864-6874
Geographic Coverage
The frozen tissue collection has broad representation of both marine and freshwater fish diversity from 38 countries (Australia, Belize, Ethiopia, Fiji, Nepal, Seychelles, South Africa and Tonga etc., as well as oceanic localities).
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Class | Actinistia, Actinopterygii, Myxini, Sarcopterygii, Dipnoi, Cephalaspidomorphi |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1960-01-01 / 2017-01-01 |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | KUBI Ichthyology Tissue Collection |
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| Collection Identifier | KUIT |
| Parent Collection Identifier | KU |
| Specimen preservation methods | Deep frozen |
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| Curatorial Units | Count 11,000 +/- 100 tissue |
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Additional Metadata
http://biodiversity.ku.edu/research/university-kansas-biodiversity-institute-data-publication-and-use-norms
| Alternative Identifiers | 56caf05f-1364-4f24-85f6-0c82520c2792 |
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| http://ipt.nhm.ku.edu/resource?r=kubi_ichthyology_tissue |