UAM Mammal Collection (Arctos)
Latest version published by University of Alaska Museum of the North on Jul 3, 2020
The University of Alaska Museum (UAM) houses one of the 10 largest mammal collections in North America, with over 115,000 catalogued specimens. Over 90% of these are from Alaska and include unparalleled series of small mammals, carnivores, and marine mammals. Over 70,000 include frozen tissue samples housed in UAM's Genomic Resources facility. An average of 1,000 specimens are loaned to researchers each year.
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 139,842 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
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| Data as a DwC-A file | download 139,842 records in English (31 MB) - Update frequency: unknown |
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| Metadata as an EML file | download in English (9 KB) |
| Metadata as an RTF file | download in English (7 KB) |
Versions
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Mammal Collection, University of Alaska Museum (UAM)
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Alaska Museum of the North. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 377be098-626f-4cc2-b4b5-35700050669a. University of Alaska Museum of the North 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
The UAM mammal collection is global in scope, with strongest representation from Alaska.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
The UAM mammal collection is taxonomically synoptic but includes especially strong holdings of Rodentia, Soricomorpha, Carnivora, and Cetacea.
| Class | Mammalia |
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Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | 1934 to present |
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Additional Metadata
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| Alternative Identifiers | 377be098-626f-4cc2-b4b5-35700050669a |
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| http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=uam_mamm |