New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science (NMMNH&S) Herbarium specimens (Arctos)
Latest version published by New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science on Mar 26, 2021
The mission of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bioscience Collection is to provide access to the museum’s collections of plants, mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians, insects and molluscs that represent the natural history of New Mexico and southwestern North America (United States and Mexico), and to serve as a safe repository for in-house research specimens. These collections are used for education, research and exhibits. We also have an extensive photographic slide collection of New Mexico plants and birds.
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 3,638 records. 1 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)
- Multimedia
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 3,638 records in English (745 KB) - Update frequency: unknown |
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| Metadata as an EML file | download in English (7 KB) |
| Metadata as an RTF file | download in English (6 KB) |
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
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New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Herbarium (Arctos)
Rights
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GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: b7e52722-ee9a-4a9c-9c01-455044e855c2. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by U.S. Geological Survey.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen
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Geographic Coverage
Focused on New Mexico, with some specimens from around North America and Peru
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Kingdom | Plantae, Fungi, Protista |
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Temporal Coverage
| Formation Period | 1950-current |
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Additional Metadata
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| Alternative Identifiers | b7e52722-ee9a-4a9c-9c01-455044e855c2 |
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| http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=nmmnh_herb |