Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona: MCNB-Cord

Javier Quesada Lara1, Jordi Agulló Villaronga1

1 Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona, Passeig Picasso s/n, E-08003, Barcelona, Spain

Corresponding author(s): Javier Quesada Lara (jquesadal@bcn.cat), Jordi Agulló Villaronga (jagullov@bcn.cat)

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Resource Citation

Colección de Cordados, MCNB http://www.gbif.org/dataset/71d58564-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a

Abstract

The Chordate collection (except Tissue Bank) contains more than 30,000 specimens, 24.000 of which have geographical origin documented. Collection grows annually by donations and passive recollections. Specimens come from several sources: nature, the Zoological Park of Barcelona, and animal recovery centers in Catalonia. There is a Laboratory where specimens are prepared (study skins, mounted, skeletons, tissues, etc). Chordates are primarily used for scientific and educational purposes. Chondrichthyes collection consists of 580 specimens; Actinopterygii collection contains 9.600 specimens. In both cases, are whole animals alcohol preserved, collected in Spain and Africa. Amphibians, 1.400 specimens, are preserved in alcohol; nearly all come from the Iberian Peninsula. There are nearly 2.300 reptiles, half from Spain and the rest from America and Africa. With more than 14.000 specimens, mostly from Spain, birds make up the largest part of the Chordate collection. Bird collection contains specimens from Equatorial Guinea, Ecuador and Vietnam. The mammal collection (more than 5.000 specimens) is largely a study collection. Half of the mammals in the collection come from fieldwork carried out on the Iberian Peninsula. Highlights include the collection of African mammals, with a few American and Asiatic mammals.

Keywords: Occurrence

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.gbif.es/resource?r=mcnb-cord

Taxonomic coverage

Taxonomic ranks
Phylum: Chordata

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Pincipalmente noreste de la Península Ibérica, algunos de Vietnam, Ecuador, Guinea Ecuatorial, y resto del mundo.
Coordinates: 90°0'0''S and 90°0'0''N Latitude; 180°0'0''W and 180°0'0''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: 1864 - 2013

Natural collections description

Parent collection identifier: NA
Collection name: Colección de Cordados
Collection identifier: http://www.gbif.org/dataset/71d58564-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a
Curatorial unit: 34429 with an uncertainty of 0 (Ejemplares)

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona: MCNB-Cord
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.gbif.es/archive.do?r=mcnb-cord
Publication date of data: 2019-12-20
Language: Catalan
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

External datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Taxo&Map
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: CSV,KML,SHP
Distribution: http://taxomap.bioexplora.cat/web/index.php?lang=en

Dataset description
Object name: Zoological collections on line
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: html 5
Distribution: http://zoologiaenlinia.museuciencies.cat/?lang=en

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2012-09-27
Hierarchy level: Dataset