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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

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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.

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Invertebrates
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Museum collections, 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]

Taxonomic coverage
Echinodermata [WoRMS]

Parameter
Collected biological specimens

Contributors
National Natural History Museum Paris (MNHN), moredata ownerdata creator
Museums Victoria, more

Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more

Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Museum collection
Metadatarecord created: 2011-12-19
Information last updated: 2017-08-11
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