LS Crustacea
About this product
Overview
LS Crustacea groups 43 collection units from the LS Crustacea section within the LS Invertebrates division (Life Sciences), covering an estimated 3,603,414 individual items held across 245,426 curatorial/storage units. Material is predominantly whole organisms (35 of 43 collection units), whole or partial organism (5 of 43 collection units), and partial organism (3 of 43 collection units). Geographic coverage is centred on World marine, World aquatic and terrestrial, and World aquatic (marine and freshwater). Preservation is mainly other, microscope slide, and dry pinned. Named taxa represented in this product include Cirripedia, Amphipoda, Isopoda, Decapoda, and Peracarida, among others.
Value
Curatorial assessment rates this product highly on Strategy/mission/research, Scope and depth, and Identification (avg. 4.2/5 across its top three scored dimensions), indicating it is well positioned for external licensing relative to other NHM holdings. Its breadth and depth of coverage make it suitable as a comprehensive reference dataset rather than a niche sample.
Use Cases
- training data for computer-vision species-identification and biodiversity-monitoring models
- high-resolution specimen imagery for scientific illustration, publishing, and natural-history media
- reference datasets for evolutionary biology, morphometrics, and comparative anatomy research
- content for natural-history apps, citizen-science platforms, and museum digital exhibits
- academic and institutional research licensing (biodiversity, systematics, and comparative studies)
- a comprehensive reference dataset or benchmark corpus, given the depth of coverage within this group
Assets (42)
Crustacea - Amphipoda - Institute of Oceanographic Sciences - Unidentified material - Wet collection
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Crustacea - Amphipoda - Pinned material - Dry collection
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Crustacea - Amphipoda - SEM stubs
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Crustacea - Amphipoda - Slide collection
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Crustacea - Amphipoda - Wet collection
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Crustacea - Caridea - Institute of Oceanographic Sciences - Unidentified material - Wet collection
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Crustacea - Cirripedia - Dry collection
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Crustacea - Cirripedia - Institute of Oceanographic Sciences - Unidentified material - Wet collection
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Crustacea - Cirripedia - SEM stubs
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Crustacea - Cirripedia - Wet collection
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Crustacea - Cirripedias - Slide collection
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Crustacea - Copepoda - Slide collection
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Crustacea - Copepoda - Wet collection
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Crustacea - Cumacea - Institute of Oceanographic Sciences - Unidentified material - Wet collection
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Crustacea - Cumacea - Slide collection
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Crustacea - Cumacea - Wet collection
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Crustacea - Decapoda - Dry collection
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Crustacea - Decapoda - Pinned material - Dry collection
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Crustacea - Decapoda (larval) - Slide collection
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Crustacea - Decopoda 1 - Wet collection
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Crustacea - Decopoda 2 - Wet collection
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Crustacea - Entomostraca - Institute of Oceanographic Sciences - Unidentified material - Wetcollection
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Crustacea - Euphausiacea - Institute of Oceanographic Sciences- Unidentified material - Wet collection
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Crustacea - Isopoda - Pinned material - Dry collection
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Crustacea - Isopoda - SEM stubs
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Crustacea - Isopoda - Slide collection
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Crustacea - Isopoda - Wet collection
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Crustacea - Isopoda- Institute of Oceanographic Sciencesy - Unidentified material - Wet collection
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Crustacea - Mysidacea - Institute of Oceanographic Sciences - Unidentified - Wet collection
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Crustacea - Mysidacea - Pinned material - Dry collection
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Crustacea - Mysidacea - Slide collection
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Crustacea - Mysidacea - Wet collection
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Crustacea - Ostracoda - Institute of Oceanographic Sciences - Unidentified material - Wet collection
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Crustacea - Ostracoda - Slide collection
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Crustacea - Ostracoda - Wet collection
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Crustacea - Stomatopoda - Institute of Oceanographic Sciences - Unidentified material - Wet collection
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Crustacea - Stomatopoda - Slide collection
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Crustacea - Stomatopoda - Spirit collection
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Crustacea - Tanaidacea - Institute of Oceanographic Sciences - Unidentified material - Wet collection
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Crustacea - Tanaidacea - Pinned material - Dry collection
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Crustacea - Tanaidacea - Slide collection
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Crustacea - Tanaidacea - Wet collection
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