OCCURRENCE

Ohio Wesleyan University Reptile Specimens (Arctos)

Latest version published by Ohio Wesleyan University Museum of Natural History on 15 September 2023 Ohio Wesleyan University Museum of Natural History
The reptile collection at the Ohio Wesleyan University Museum of Natural History is strongly focused on lizards, though snakes, turtles, and crocodilians are also represented.
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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 342 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)
    342
  • Multimedia 
    2

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 342 records in English (169 kB) - Update frequency: monthly
Metadata as an EML file download in English (11 kB)
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:

Ohio Wesleyan University Museum of Natural History Reptile Collection

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Ohio Wesleyan University Museum of Natural History. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: a28138cb-d42a-460d-b16d-8ed2f911022f.  Ohio Wesleyan University Museum of Natural History 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:

Josh Pletcher
Student Curator
Ohio Wesleyan University Museum of Natural History
43015 Delaware
Ohio
US
19706320027
https://www.owu.edu/academics/natural-history-museum/
Lisa Tabak
Curatorial Director
Ohio Wesleyan University Museum of Natural History
90 S Henry St, SCSC 166
43015 Delaware
Ohio
US
1-740-368-3887
https://www.owu.edu/academics/natural-history-museum/

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Josh Pletcher
Student Curator
Ohio Wesleyan University Museum of Natural History
43015 Delaware
Ohio
US
19706320027
https://www.owu.edu/academics/natural-history-museum/
Lisa Tabak
Curatorial Director
Ohio Wesleyan University Museum of Natural History
90 S Henry St, SCSC 166
43015 Delaware
Ohio
US
1-740-368-3887
https://www.owu.edu/academics/natural-history-museum/

Who filled in the metadata:

Josh Pletcher
Student Curator
Ohio Wesleyan University Museum of Natural History
43015 Delaware
Ohio
US
19706320027
https://www.owu.edu/academics/natural-history-museum/
Lisa Tabak
Curatorial Director
Ohio Wesleyan University Museum of Natural History
90 S Henry St, SCSC 166
43015 Delaware
Ohio
US
740-368-3887
https://www.owu.edu/academics/natural-history-museum/

Who else was associated with the resource:

Curator
Eric Gangloff
Assistant Professor of Zoology
Ohio Wesleyan University Museum of Natural History
43015 Delaware
Ohio
US
1-740-368-3892
https://www.owu.edu/academics/natural-history-museum/
Programmer
David Bloom
Vertnet Coordinator
http://www.vertnet.org
Programmer
John Wieczorek
Information Architect
http://vertnet.org/
Programmer
Dusty McDonald
Arctos Database Programmer
http://arctos.database.museum

Geographic Coverage

Ohio, Texas, Seychelles

Bounding Coordinates South West [23.322, -108.457], North East [49.382, -66.094]

Taxonomic Coverage

Squamata, Crocodilia, Testudines

Class  Reptilia
Order  Squamata,  Crocodilia,  Testudines

Temporal Coverage

Living Time Period 1859-Present

Collection Data

Collection Name Ohio Wesleyan University Reptile Specimens
Collection Identifier https://arctos.database.museum/collection/OWU:Rept
Parent Collection Identifier OWU

Additional Metadata

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

Purpose Reptile reference and teaching collection
Alternative Identifiers OWMZ
a28138cb-d42a-460d-b16d-8ed2f911022f
http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=owu_rept