Description
The Alabama Museum of Natural History's Mammal collection contains numerous series of small Alabama mammals such as rodents, shrews and bats that are available for research. More than 3000 specimens, including study skins, skulls and taxidermy, are represented in its holdings.Many of the specimens were collected in the 1950’s and 60’s through the Department of Biological Sciences. Several collections of big game trophy heads were acquired from five different donors comprising an eclectic mix of sheep, antelope and other hoofed mammals.Some full mounts of African and North American mammals also exist.
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 2,374 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.
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.
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:
Alabama Museum of Natural History Mammals Collection. Individual specimens should be cited as ALMNH:Mamm: followed by the integer catalog number.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Alabama Museum of Natural History. 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: 7dceb7ba-27ba-4b81-b0fb-0084cb1c6541. Alabama Museum of Natural History publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence; Specimen
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Collections Manager
Geographic Coverage
Geographically, most specimens originate from Alabama, with some specimens collected from the Northeastern US. Several collections of big game trophy heads were acquired from five different donors comprising a global eclectic mix of sheep, antelope and other hoofed mammals. Some full mounts of African and North American mammals also exist.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Mammals
| Class | Mammalia (Mammals) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | Late 1800's to late 1900's |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | Alabama Museum of Natural History Mammal specimens |
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| Collection Identifier | https://arctos.database.museum/collection/ALMNH:Mamm |
| Parent Collection Identifier | ALMNH |
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Additional Metadata
Arctos Data Ownership and Use: http://arctosdb.org/home/data/; http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html
| Purpose | Natural History Research and Education |
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| Alternative Identifiers | 7dceb7ba-27ba-4b81-b0fb-0084cb1c6541 |
| https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=almnh_mamm |