Field Museum of Natural History (Zoology) Invertebrate Collection
GBIF
Dataset type
This dataset that contains primary occurrence data for species.
Description
<p>Building on acquisitions since the Museum’s founding in 1894 and established in 1938, the Division of Invertebrates is in charge of all invertebrate groups except insects and other non-marine arthropods. The first curator of this Division was Fritz Haas, formerly of the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt, Germany. Haas (1938 - 1969) and his successor Alan Solem (1957 - 1990) built massive mollusk collections, particularly strong in unionid bivalves and terrestrial snails, reflecting their respective research interests. Current curator Rüdiger Bieler (1990 -) and curator emerita Janet Voight (1990 -) focus their research and collection-building on marine molluscan groups. The varied curatorial research interests, collecting efforts of collections managers (e.g., John Slapcinsky, Jochen Gerber, and Sean Keogh), acquisitions of private collections, and transfer or holdings from other institutions where they were underutilized, have resulted in one of the largest collections of its kind in the U.S..</p>
Type of content
Includes: Point occurrence data, gbif import.Citation
Grant S, Webbink K, D'Angelo J (2026). Field Museum of Natural History (Zoology) Invertebrate Collection. Version 18.53. Field Museum. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/6q5vuc accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-05-19. Accessed 15.06.2026.
Digitised records
Looking up... the number of records that can be accessed through the BioAtlas - Atlas bioraznolikosti Hrvatske. This resource was last checked for updated data on 21.05.2026. The most recent data was published on 21.05.2026.
Metadata last updated on 21.05.2026 07:46
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