Invertebrates — Combined minor collections (5 sections)
About this product
Overview
Invertebrates — Combined minor collections (5 sections) groups 50 collection units from 5 sections within the LS Invertebrates division (Life Sciences), covering an estimated 708,899 individual items held across 302,428 curatorial/storage units. Material is predominantly whole organisms (44 of 50 collection units), whole or partial organism (4 of 50 collection units), and partial organism (1 of 50 collection units). Geographic coverage is centred on World aquatic and terrestrial, World marine, and World aquatic (marine and freshwater). Preservation is mainly other, microscope slide, and dried. Named taxa represented in this product include Nematoda, Cnidaria, Polychaeta, Acanthocephala, and Cestoda, among others.
Value
Curatorial assessment rates this product highly on Identification, Scope and depth, and Strategy/mission/research (avg. 3.8/5 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
- supervised computer-vision or species-identification model training, thanks to reliable taxonomic ground truth
- a comprehensive reference dataset or benchmark corpus, given the depth of coverage within this group
Assets (50)
Annelida - Hirudinea - Slide collection
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Annelida - Hirudinea - Wet collection
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Annelida - Oligochaeta - Wet collection
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Annelida - Oligochaete - Slide collection
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Annelida - Polychaeta - Slide collection
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Annelida - Polychaeta - Wet collection
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Annelida - Polychaete - SEM stubs
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Annelida - Polychaetes - Dry material
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Blaschka Invertebrates - Model collection
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Cnidaria - Actiniaria, Ceriantharia, Corallimorpharia, Ptychodactinaria and Zoantharia - Wet collection
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Cnidaria - Alcyonacea (including Protoalcyonaria, Stolonifera and Telestacea) - Wet collection
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Cnidaria - Anthozoa - Slide collection
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Cnidaria - Antipatharia - Wet collection
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Cnidaria - Centophora - Wet collection
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Cnidaria - Cubozoa - Wet collection
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Cnidaria - Gorgonacea - Wet collection
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Cnidaria - Hexacorallia - Dry collection
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Cnidaria - Hydromedusae and Hydroida - Wet collection
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Cnidaria - Hydrozoa - Slide collection
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Cnidaria - Medusae - Institute of Oceanographic Sciences - Unidenified material - Wet collection
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Cnidaria - Miscellaneous - Slide collection
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Cnidaria - Octocorallia - Dry collection
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Cnidaria - Pennatulacea - Wet collection
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Cnidaria - Scleractinia - Wet collection
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Cnidaria - Scyphozoa - Wet collection
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Cnidaria - Siphonophora - Wet collection
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Cnidaria - Unsorted collection - Wet collection
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Nematoda - Slide collection
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Nematoda - Wet collection
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Nemertean - Wet collection
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Parasitic Worms - Acanthocephala - Slides collection
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Parasitic Worms - Acanthocephala - Wet collection
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Parasitic worms - Aspidogastrea - Slide collection
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Parasitic worms - Aspidogastrea - Wet collection
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Parasitic Worms - Cestoda - Slide collection
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Parasitic Worms - Cestoda - Wet collection
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Parasitic Worms - Digenea - Slides collection
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Parasitic Worms - Digenea - Wet collection
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Parasitic Worms - Mesozoa - Slide collection
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Parasitic worms - Monogenea - Slide collection
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Parasitic worms - Monogenea - Wet collection
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Parasitic Worms - Nematoda - Slide collection
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Parasitic Worms - Nematomorpha - Slide collection
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Parasitic Worms - Nematomorpha - Wet collection
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Parasitic worms - Schistozomes - Wax blocks
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Parasitic Worms - Turbellaria - Slide collection
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Parasitic Worms - Turbellaria - Wet collection
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Parasitic Worms - Unidentified material - Slide collection
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Parasitic Worms - Unidentified material - Wet collection
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Parasitic Worms- Nematoda - Wet collection
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