OCCURRENCE

HSU Vertebrate Museum Mammals Collection

Latest version published by Humboldt State University on 13 June 2017 Humboldt State University
The Vertebrate Museum’s mammal collection contains approximately 8,750 specimens, including skins and skeletal material from a variety of terrestrial, aquatic, marine and volant mammals. The research collection is currently the second largest of its kind in the California State University System at over 8,000 specimens. The collection dates back to 1923 and is particularly strong in marine mammals of the Pacific Ocean and terrestrial mammals from northern California and the Great Basin. It is fully accredited by the American Society of Mammalogists. We also have an outstanding teaching collection of over 800 specimens, with exceptional coverage of the Orders and Families of living mammals.
Home:
Link
Publication date:
13 June 2017
License:
CC0 1.0

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 8,633 records.

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.

Downloads

Download the latest version of this resource data as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) or the resource metadata as EML or RTF:

Data as a DwC-A file download 8,633 records in English (569 kB) - Update frequency: unknown
Metadata as an EML file download in English (7 kB)
Metadata as an RTF file download in English (7 kB)

Versions

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Humboldt State University Vertebrate Museum Mammals Collection

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Humboldt State University. 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: 62f37aae-c69a-422f-ad23-32bd92454806.  Humboldt State University publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by U.S. Geological Survey.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

Who created the resource:

John Reiss
Curator
Humboldt State University, Department of Biological Sciences, Vertebrate Museum
1 Harpst Street
95521 Arcata
CA
US
707-826-4156
http://www.humboldt.edu/vmuseum

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Thor Holmes
Collections Manager
Humboldt State University, Department of Biological Sciences, Vertebrate Museum
1 Harpst Street
95521 Arcata
CA
US
707-826-4872
http://www.humboldt.edu/vmuseum

Who filled in the metadata:

John Reiss
Curator
Humboldt State University, Department of Biological Sciences, Vertebrate Museum
1 Harpst Street
95521 Arcata
CA
US
707-826-4156
http://www.humboldt.edu/vmuseum

Who else was associated with the resource:

Programmer
Laura Russell
VertNet Programmer
VertNet
http://vertnet.org/
Programmer
David Bloom
VertNet Coordinator
VertNet
http://vertnet.org/
Programmer
John Wieczorek
Information Architect
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at Berkeley
http://vertnet.org/

Geographic Coverage

The collection is particularly strong in marine mammals of the Pacific Ocean and terrestrial mammals from northern California and the Great Basin.

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

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Class  Mammalia

Additional Metadata