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Specimen Record

ContinentSouth America
CountryGuyana
State/Province8 (potaro/siparuni)
LocalityPotaro River, At Ayanganna Old, Western Side
Latitude5.30181
Longitude-59.89838
Institution CodeAum
Collection CodeFish
Catalog Number62934
Collected ByD.c. Taphorn, D.c. Werneke, E.a. Liverpool, D.p. Fernandes
Date Collected2014-03-19

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AUM Fish Collection
http://aumnh.org/research-collections/fishes

The Fish Collection at the Auburn University Museum of Natural History has fishes from all over the world. The collection has particularly large holdings of fishes from the Southeastern US and South America. Approximately 750,000 preserved specimens in more than 72,000 lots are cataloged in the collection.

Contacts

Name David Werneke
RoleCollections Manager
Emailwernedc@auburn.edu
Name David Werneke
RoleCollections Manager
Emailwernedc@auburn.edu
Name Laura Russell
RoleProgrammer
Emaillarussell@vertnet.org
Name David Bloom
RoleCoordinator
Emaildbloom@vertnet.org
Name John Wieczorek
RoleInformation Architect
Emailtuco@berkeley.edu
Name Jonathon Armbruster
RoleCurator of Fishes
Emailarmbrjw@mail.auburn.edu
Name David Werneke
RoleCollections Manager
Emailwernedc@auburn.edu
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Taxonomy
Scientific NameLithogenes villosus
Higher ClassficationAnimalia | Chordata | Actinopterygii | Siluriformes | Loricariidae | Lithogenes
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassActinopterygii
OrderSiluriformes
FamilyLoricariidae
GenusLithogenes
Specific Epithetvillosus
Taxon Rankspecies
Nomenclatural CodeICZN
Specimen
Catalog Number62934
Preparations27 - 70% EtOH; 27 - 95% EtOH
Institution CodeAUM
Collection CodeFish
Occurrence ID70168aef-4f65-4418-9545-7f2702b51cc0
Basis of RecordPreservedSpecimen
Type of ResourcePhysicalObject
Collection Event
Collected ByD.C. Taphorn, D.C. Werneke, E.A. Liverpool, D.P. Fernandes
Field NumberGUY 14-36
Date Collected2014-03-19
Verbatim Date Collected19-Mar-14
Year2014
Month3
Day19
Start Day of Year78
End Day of Year78
Collection Remarks95% specimens stored in -80 museum freezer.
Locality
CountryGuyana
Country CodeGY
State / Province8 (Potaro/Siparuni)
Higher GeographySouth America | Guyana | 8 (Potaro/Siparuni) | | | Potaro River - Essequibo River | |
ContinentSouth America
Water BodyPotaro River - Essequibo River
LocalityPotaro River, at Ayanganna Old, western side
Verbatim LocalitySouth America | Guyana | 8 (Potaro/Siparuni) | Potaro River - Essequibo River | Potaro River, at Ayanganna Old, western side
Decimal Latitude5.30181
Decimal Longitude-59.89838
Location IDc8495048-51c0-48ee-924c-315629c39c6b
Geodetic Datumnot recorded (forced WGS84)
Other
Languageen
Modified53:29.0
ID70168aef-4f65-4418-9545-7f2702b51cc0
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dcterms:referenceshttp://portal.vertnet.org/o/aum/fish?id=70168aef-4f65-4418-9545-7f2702b51cc0
dcterms:accessRightshttp://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html
dwc:establishmentMeansnative
dcterms:bibliographicCitation70168aef-4f65-4418-9545-7f2702b51cc0. http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource.do?r=aum_fish.
dwc:occurrenceStatuspresent
dwc:georeferenceVerificationStatusrequires verification
dcterms:licenseCC0
dwc:eventRemarks5 Lithogenes in 95% EtOH, some females with eggs (JWA491 specimen and JWA495 specimen); the majority of Lithogenes (~20 specimens) were collected in a single seine set with brailes 0.5 m apart; 5 habitat measures: 36.5 cm @ 0.7 m/s, 32 cm @ 1.2 m/s, 28 cm
dwc:eventID9100
dwc:institutionIDhttp://grbio.org/cool/8wk2-p21y
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