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                <title xml:lang="eng">Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections - TCWC Vertebrates</title>
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            <individualName>
                    <givenName>Heather</givenName>
                <surName>Prestridge</surName>
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            <organizationName>Texas A&amp;M University Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections</organizationName>
            <positionName>Curator</positionName>
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                    <deliveryPoint>Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, TAMU 2258</deliveryPoint>
                    <city>College Station</city>
                    <administrativeArea>TX</administrativeArea>
                    <postalCode>77843</postalCode>
                    <country>US</country>
            </address>
            <phone>+01 (979) 845-5783</phone>
            <electronicMailAddress>hlprestridge@tamu.edu</electronicMailAddress>
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                    <givenName>Heather</givenName>
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                    <deliveryPoint>Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, TAMU 2258</deliveryPoint>
                    <city>College Station</city>
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                    <postalCode>77843</postalCode>
                    <country>US</country>
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            <electronicMailAddress>hlprestridge@tamu.edu</electronicMailAddress>
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            <individualName>
                    <givenName>Laura</givenName>
                <surName>Russell</surName>
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            <organizationName>VertNet</organizationName>
            <positionName>VertNet Programmer</positionName>
            <electronicMailAddress>larussell@vertnet.org</electronicMailAddress>
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                    <associatedParty>
            <individualName>
                    <givenName>David</givenName>
                <surName>Bloom</surName>
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            <organizationName>VertNet</organizationName>
            <positionName>VertNet Coordinator</positionName>
            <electronicMailAddress>dbloom@vertnet.org</electronicMailAddress>
            <role>programmer</role>
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                    <associatedParty>
            <individualName>
                    <givenName>John</givenName>
                <surName>Wieczorek</surName>
            </individualName>
            <organizationName>Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at Berkeley</organizationName>
            <positionName>Information Architect</positionName>
            <electronicMailAddress>tuco@berkeley.edu</electronicMailAddress>
            <role>programmer</role>
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            <individualName>
                    <givenName>Heather</givenName>
                <surName>Prestridge</surName>
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            <organizationName>Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections</organizationName>
            <positionName>Curator</positionName>
            <electronicMailAddress>brtc@tamu.edu</electronicMailAddress>
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            <role>pointOfContact</role>
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                    <associatedParty>
            <individualName>
                    <givenName>Toby</givenName>
                <surName>Hibbitts</surName>
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            <organizationName>Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections</organizationName>
            <positionName>Curator</positionName>
            <electronicMailAddress>thibbitts@tamu.edu</electronicMailAddress>
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                    2024-05-13
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                            <para>The Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections (formerly the Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collection - TCWC), is the natural history collection maintained by the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&amp;M University in College Station Texas.</para>
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                                    <keyword>amphibians
reptiles
fishes
mammals
birds</keyword>
                            <keywordThesaurus>Voucher specimens</keywordThesaurus>
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                        <keywordSet>
                                    <keyword>amphibians
reptiles
fishes
mammals
birds</keyword>
                            <keywordThesaurus>Tissue samples</keywordThesaurus>
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                        <keywordSet>
                                    <keyword>Museum specimens
Voucher specimens</keyword>
                            <keywordThesaurus>General</keywordThesaurus>
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                        <keywordSet>
                                    <keyword>Occurrence</keyword>
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                                    <keyword>Occurrence</keyword>
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                <additionalInfo>
                    <para>In most cases geospatial data are available for specimens in our collection. To request more detailed locality information please contact us.

http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html</para>
                </additionalInfo>
                <intellectualRights>
                    <para>To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the <ulink url="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode"><citetitle>Public Domain (CC0 1.0)</citetitle></ulink>. Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.</para>
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                        <url function="information">http://brtc.tamu.edu</url>
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                        <geographicCoverage>
                                <geographicDescription>Collection geographic strengths are Texas, United States, Mexico, Central and South America. Aquatic holdings are strong from Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic Ocean, and freshwater locals as above.</geographicDescription>
                            <boundingCoordinates>
                                <westBoundingCoordinate>-180</westBoundingCoordinate>
                                <eastBoundingCoordinate>180</eastBoundingCoordinate>
                                <northBoundingCoordinate>90</northBoundingCoordinate>
                                <southBoundingCoordinate>-90</southBoundingCoordinate>
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                                <temporalCoverage>
                                        <rangeOfDates>
                                                <beginDate>
                                                    <calendarDate>1877</calendarDate>
                                                </beginDate>
                                            <endDate>
                                                <calendarDate>1877</calendarDate>
                                            </endDate>
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                                        <generalTaxonomicCoverage>Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections (TCWC Vertebrates) include collections of birds, mammals, amphibians, reptiles, and fishes.</generalTaxonomicCoverage>
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                                            <taxonRankValue>Birds</taxonRankValue>
                                        </taxonomicClassification>
                                        <taxonomicClassification>
                                            <taxonRankValue>Mammals</taxonRankValue>
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                                        <taxonomicClassification>
                                            <taxonRankValue>Fishes</taxonRankValue>
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                                            <taxonRankValue>Reptiles</taxonRankValue>
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                                            <taxonRankValue>Amphibians</taxonRankValue>
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                    <description>
                        <para></para>
                    </description>
                    <maintenanceUpdateFrequency>unkown</maintenanceUpdateFrequency>
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                    <givenName>Heather</givenName>
                <surName>Prestridge</surName>
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                    <city>College Station</city>
                    <administrativeArea>TX</administrativeArea>
                    <postalCode>77843</postalCode>
                    <country>US</country>
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                    <title>Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections</title>
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                                    <givenName>Heather</givenName>
                                <surName>Prestridge</surName>
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                            <dateStamp>2012-07-24T06:55:43.115+00:00</dateStamp>
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                                <citation>Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&amp;M University, College Station, TX, USA.</citation>
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