Occurrence

Auckland Museum Botany Collection

Latest version published by Auckland War Memorial Museum on 10 January 2025 Auckland War Memorial Museum
Publication date:
10 January 2025
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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Description

The botanical collections of the Auckland Museum Herbarium were first established in 1870, about 18 years after the Museum was founded. The Museum's Herbarium holds over 350,000 botanical specimens, including 200,000 angiosperms, 5,000 gymnosperms, 30,000 pteridophytes, 26,000 mosses, 17,600 liverworts, 27,000 algae, 28,600 lichens, and 1,000 timber samples.

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 315,049 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Occurrence (core)
315049
Multimedia 
307100

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

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Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Auckland War Memorial Museum. 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: 83ae84cf-88e4-4b5c-80b2-271a15a3e0fc.  Auckland War Memorial Museum publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF New Zealand.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence

Contacts

Dhahara Ranatunga
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
Collection Manager, Botany
Auckland Museum
Auckland
NZ
Brodie Hoare
  • Metadata Provider
Online Collections Data Analyst
Auckland Museum
NZ

Geographic Coverage

New Zealand -179.14

Bounding Coordinates South West [-52.052, -172.266], North East [-31.354, 153.984]

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 83ae84cf-88e4-4b5c-80b2-271a15a3e0fc
https://ipt2.aucklandmuseum.com:8443/ipt/resource?r=botany