Description
APSU’s amphibian and reptile collection includes over 35,300 vouchers (alcohol specimens, photographs, and audio recordings) documenting over 20,000 records of salamanders, frogs and toads, lizards, snakes, and turtles primarily from Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Arkansas, but also a small number from other US states, the Philippines, Mexico, and Canada. More than half of the holdings include alcohol specimens that made up the Memphis State University collection, which was transferred to Austin Peay in 1999. The collection is the largest of its kind in Tennessee and serves as the main repository of herptile data for the state. Several thousands of the vouchers have been referenced in peer-reviewed scientific publications.
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 19,243 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:
David H. Snyder Museum of Zoology Amphibian and Reptile Collection. Individual specimens should be cited as APSU:Herp: followed by the integer catalog number.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Austin Peay State University Natural History Collections. 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: 410461b6-368c-4970-8cb5-c043c28c08dd. Austin Peay State University Natural History Collections 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
- Manager of Collections
- P.O. Box 4718
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8687-861X
- Curator
- Curator of Collections
- P.O. Box 4718
- 931-221-7076
- Curator
- Professor of Biology
- P.O. Box 4718
- 931-221-7076
Geographic Coverage
Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Arkansas, but also a small number from other US states, the Philippines, Mexico, and Canada
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [6.665, -170.508], North East [71.856, -49.922] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Reptiles and amphibians
| Class | Amphibia (Amphibians), Reptilia (Reptiles) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | 1911-current |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | Austin Peay State University Amphibian and reptile specimens |
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| Collection Identifier | https://arctos.database.museum/collection/APSU:Herp |
| Parent Collection Identifier | APSU |
| Specimen preservation methods | Formalin, Alcohol, Dried, No treatment |
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Additional Metadata
Arctos Data Ownership and Use: http://arctosdb.org/home/data/; http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html
| Purpose | Students have been engaged in collection science and research through the DSMZ and its curators since its inception and these libraries play a valuable role in teaching, research, and outreach for APSU, the broader scientific community, and the general public. |
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| Maintenance Description | When there is funding for a collections manager or a collections assistant (graduate student) the collection data is regularly maintained with any new incoming records being processed and cataloged as quickly as possible by collection staff. In the absence of funding, the data are maintained as regularly as possible on the good will of experienced volunteers. |
| Alternative Identifiers | 410461b6-368c-4970-8cb5-c043c28c08dd |
| https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=apsu_herp |