Description
The ASNHC Amphibian and Reptile Collection totals approximately 15,500 specimens. Areas of strong geographic representation include west-central to north-central Texas including a large series from the Concho Valley. Significant series from surveys of Devil's River State Natural Area and Monahans Sandhills State Park are also present. Significant collections from northern Mexico are also present. The collection was established in the late 1960s.
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 15,735 records.
2 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:
Angelo State Natural History Collections, Collection of Amphibians and Reptiles. Individual specimens should be cited as ASNHC:Herp: followed by the integer catalog number.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Angelo State Natural History Collections (ASNHC). To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 91025c69-111a-45c0-8440-59cb9efbdff7. Angelo State Natural History Collections (ASNHC) publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Specimen; Occurrence
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Geographic Coverage
Primarily Texas and the Southwestern United States, but other holdings include sampling from Mexico, Panama, Chile, and Argentina
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Amphibians and Reptiles of Texas and the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico
Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | 1965-present with a few older specimens |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | Angelo State Natural History Collections (ASNHC) Amphibian and reptile specimens |
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| Collection Identifier | ASNHC:Herp |
| Parent Collection Identifier | ASNHC |
| Specimen preservation methods | Alcohol, Dried, Mounted |
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Additional Metadata
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| Purpose | The Collection of Amphibians and Reptiles is held for research, outreach, and university-level specimen-based education. |
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| Alternative Identifiers | 91025c69-111a-45c0-8440-59cb9efbdff7 |
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| https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=asnhc_herp |