Canterbury Museum Mayfly Collection
Citation
Canterbury Museum (2023). Canterbury Museum Mayfly Collection. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/5ksxu8 accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-10-13.Description
This is a collection amassed primarily by Terry R Hitchings at Canterbury Museum, New Zealand. Mr. Hitchings began collecting, curating, identifying and describing new species in the early 1990s, incorporating the existing Canterbury Museum mayfly collections into this work. From the late 2000s, Mr. Hitchings son, Timothy R Hitchings, began working with his father on the collection. Their work on the group is ongoing. A project to catalogue the backlog this collection was completed in 2018.Purpose
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originatorCanterbury Museum Mayfly Collection
metadata author
Canterbury Museum Mayfly Collection
distributor
Atlas of Living Australia
CSIRO Ecosystems Services
Canberra
2601
ACT
AU
email: info@ala.org.au
originator
Canterbury Museum
originator
Canterbury Museum Mayfly Collection
administrative point of contact
Atlas of Living Australia
CSIRO Ecosystems Services
Canberra
2601
ACT
AU
email: info@ala.org.au