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The ARC is a research museum for aquatic organisms from Atlantic Canada. Specimens are available for research and education purposes via loan or visit.
Collection Coverage: Algae, Invertebrates and Fishes
- Davis Strait to Cape Cod
- Freshwater to the deep sea
Holdings:
- Marine algae - nearly 3,600 samples
- Marine invertebrates - organisms from sponges to tunicates, representing 2900 species in 24,600 lots
- annelids - ca. 4,000 lots
- molluscs – 5,900 lots including 3,100 lots of mesopelagic squids and octopuses (118 species in 32 families)
- crustacean - 11,000 lots, including shallow water and deep-sea crustaceans
- freshwater insects
- fish parasites
- Fishes - 116,800 lots with over 1400 species in 272 families including extensive holdings of ichthyoplankton and midwater and deep-sea bottom fishes.
ARC collections may be viewed online through the Ocean Biogeographic Information System by choosing Advanced Search, entering the species in question, and ticking Atlantic Reference Centre.
NaGISA field work in Cobscook Bay, ME
ARC Collections Research Services Staff
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