OCCURRENCE

California State University, Long Beach Mammal specimens (Arctos)

Latest version published by California State University, Long Beach on 28 September 2023 California State University, Long Beach
The CSULB mammal collection has ~12,700 specimens preserved as study skins, skulls, skeletons, and fluid preprations. The vast majority of the specimens are regional, with a focus on rodents of Southern California, Utah, and northwestern Mexico. The collection includes vouchers from systematic and parasitological studies of CSULB faculty.
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Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 12,671 records.

2 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

  • Occurrence (core)
    12671
  • ResourceRelationship 
    12215
  • Multimedia 
    0

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

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Data as a DwC-A file download 12,671 records in English (7 MB) - Update frequency: monthly
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Metadata as an RTF file download in English (7 kB)

Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

California State University Long Beach Mammal Collection

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is California State University, Long Beach. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 431b19b9-b5b4-4bcb-ae11-072899dd4c52.  California State University, Long Beach publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by U.S. Geological Survey.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

Who created the resource:

Suellen Jacob
Vertebrate Collections Manager
California State University, Long Beach
http://web.csulb.edu/colleges/cnsm/collections/mammals/

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Ted Stankowich
Mammalogy Professer
California State University, Long Beach
http://web.csulb.edu/colleges/cnsm/collections/mammals/

Who filled in the metadata:

Suellen Jacob
Vertebrate Collections Manager
California State University, Long Beach
http://web.csulb.edu/colleges/cnsm/collections/mammals/

Who else was associated with the resource:

Programmer
David Bloom
VertNet Coordinator
http://www.vertnet.org
Programmer
John Wieczorek
Information Architect
http://www.vertnet.org

Geographic Coverage

Mostly southwestern United States and northeastern Mexico.

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

Most mammal taxa are represented, but Rodentia by far the most so.

Class  Mammalia

Temporal Coverage

Living Time Period 1868-present

Collection Data

Collection Name California State University, Long Beach Mammal specimens
Collection Identifier https://arctos.database.museum/collection/CSULB:Mamm
Parent Collection Identifier CSULB
Specimen preservation methods Mounted,  Dried,  Alcohol

Additional Metadata

Arctos Data Ownership and Use: http://arctosdb.org/home/data/; http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html

Purpose Teaching, research.
Alternative Identifiers 431b19b9-b5b4-4bcb-ae11-072899dd4c52
http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=csulb_mammals