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The echinoderm collection (IE) of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN - Paris)
Citation
MNHN - Museum national d'Histoire naturelle: Echinoderm specimens https://doi.org/10.15468/tp2nxo
Contact:
Ameziane, Nadia Availability:
 This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description
The aim is to provide a general view of the echinoderm collection of the Paris Museum, which is primarily a scientific collection. The naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, one of the founders of the Theory of Evolution, was the first to really establish the collection of echinoderms at the Paris Museum. There are both dry and alcohol-preserved lots. Some sea cucumber specimens are preserved as microscopic preparations on slides. The number of lots is estimated at 500,000, of which 0.4% are types. Echinoderms have been collected in all oceans, at all latitudes. The largest numbers of specimens were collected relatively recently in the Indo-West Pacific. more
Echinoderms live exclusively in marine waters and at all depths. For 25 years intensive research programs have permitted huge collections to be obtained, especially from the Indo-Pacific and Antarctic regions. Most of the data entered so far are from these regions. Lineage
Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output Scope Themes: Biology > Invertebrates Keywords: Marine/Coastal, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, Museum collections, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, ISW, Indian Ocean, IW, West Pacific, World, Echinodermata Geographical coverage EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: -179,9527; MinLat: -71,1 - MaxLong: 179,9922; MaxLat: 77,0167 [WGS84] ISW, Indian Ocean [Marine Regions] IW, West Pacific [Marine Regions] World [Marine Regions] Taxonomic coverage
Echinodermata [WoRMS]
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Collected biological specimens Contributors
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Published in: EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
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Dataset information: Other: Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Museum collection
Release date: 2013-08-01
Metadatarecord created: 2011-12-19
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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