Description
The collection of insects of the MNCN (Madrid, Spain) constitutes the most valuable scientific section in this Museum. It holds about 4,000,000 specimens from almost all over the world, being its main strength the Iberian Peninsula, Canary Islands, Morocco and Equatorial Guinea. It keeps some 25,000 type specimens, representing some 6,100 taxa. Strong points are Orthoptera (s.l.), Coleoptera and Hymenoptera.Iberian Orthopteroids, some Coleoptera and Hymenoptera are accessible online
Note: this dataset was previously orphaned. It has been rescued by ① extracting it from the GBIF.org index (see GBIF Download in External Data) and ② republishing it on this IPT data hosting centre as version 1.0.
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 17,334 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:
Spanish National Museum of Natural Sciences (CSIC). Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Entomología. Occurrence Dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/pqfubx accessed via GBIF.org on 2018-02-06.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC). 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: 835bf26e-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC) publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Spain.
Keywords
Occurrence
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
| GBIF Occurrence Download | http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/request/0002117-180131172636756.zip UTF-8 Darwin Core Archive |
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Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- TECHNICAL_POINT_OF_CONTACT ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- TECHNICAL_POINT_OF_CONTACT
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- TECHNICAL_POINT_OF_CONTACT
- +34 91 411 13 28 ext. 1104
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | doi:10.15468/pqfubx |
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| 254 | |
| 835bf26e-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a | |
| https://ipt.gbif.es/resource?r=mncn_ent |