Description
The herpetology collection holds approximately 11,500 specimens, mostly from San Luis Obispo, Kern, Santa Barbara, Ventura, and Los Angeles counties. The collection is scientifically valuable for its extensive coverage of this rich and biogeographically complex transitional region. The majority of specimens are fluid-preserved and are accompanied by field notes. There are significant holdings of amphibian eggs and larvae, skeletal preparations, prepared materials, focused collections that show evolutionary dynamics at intraspecific transition zones, and the synoptic collection. We do not maintain a tissue collection at this time. The CCBER herpetological collection is unique in its thorough coverage of the herpetofauna of southwestern California, and for its relevance to critical conservation issues via documenting life history patterns of declining amphibians and recent changes in the abundance and distribution of species.
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 15,637 records.
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
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Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration. 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: 1050a336-b87a-44b1-b0ec-6fe5fcb3d298. Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
Mostly from San Luis Obispo, Kern, Santa Barbara, Ventura, and Los Angeles counties.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [32.43, -123.03], North East [38.11, -114.01] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Class | Amphibia (amphibians), Reptilia (reptiles) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Formation Period | 1950s-current |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | Vertebrate Collections Management Project |
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| Funding | The data in this resource were funded by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Custodian Steward
Additional Metadata
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| Alternative Identifiers | 1050a336-b87a-44b1-b0ec-6fe5fcb3d298 |
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| http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=ccber_herps |