Description
The collection of fish at the NTNU University Museum dates back to the 1860's. The collection contains both freshwater and marine fish. Almost all of the objects are preserved on ethanol. The marine part of the collection is small and dates back to when there were research on marine fish at the museum, corresponding with when exploration and mapping of marine environments in central Norway started, initially the Trondheimsfjord, but later also coastal areas outside the fjord. The freshwater part of the collection is larger and dates mainly from late 1960's and up to today. This part of the collection contains mainly of anadromous salmonid species (Salmo salar and Salmo trutta, 65 % of the total fish collection). This is mainly due to the museum being involved in numerous projects investigating the effects of Norwegian freshwater systems being used for hydropower production. Todays collection covers most of the species found in the coastal areas and freshwater systems of central Norway. It contains a total of 248 species. The geographic coverage of the objects in this collection is mainly Norwegian mainland, Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Within Norway mainland the majority of objects collected origins from central Norway.
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 6,463 records.
3 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:
Hårsaker K, Bakken T, Davidsen J G, Daverdin M (2022). Fish collection NTNU University Museum. Version 1.1094. Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/q909ac accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-08-14.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Norwegian University of Science and Technology. 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: 81ccd65e-1832-4d4c-aaaa-56541b71ae1b. Norwegian University of Science and Technology publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Norway.
Keywords
Occurrence; Occurrence; Specimen
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Collection manager
- Metadata Provider ●
- Point Of Contact
- Associate professor
- Metadata Provider ●
- Point Of Contact
- Associate professor
Geographic Coverage
Norwegian mainland, Svalbard and Jan Mayen
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [57.327, 1.406], North East [81.308, 33.047] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
The collection covers most of the marine and freshwater fish species found in the coastal areas and freshwater systems of central Norway. It contains a total of 248 species.
| Class | Actinopterygii, Cephalaspidomorphi, Elasmobranchii, Holocephali, Myxini |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1860-01-01 / 2018-01-01 |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 10.15468/q909ac |
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| http://vm-ipt.it.ntnu.no:8080/resource?r=fish_collection_ntnu_university_museum | |
| 81ccd65e-1832-4d4c-aaaa-56541b71ae1b | |
| https://gbif.vm.ntnu.no/resource?r=fish_collection_ntnu_university_museum |