Description
The CMNH mammal collection is the largest of the vertebrate zoology collections. It consists of approximately 19,000 specimens, with the focus on study skins with skulls from the Americas. It also includes an osteology section from the Americas and Africa, many including both skull and post-cranial material.
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 15,674 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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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Cleveland Museum of Natural History Mammal Collection
Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Cleveland Museum of Natural History. 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: 96e13e19-b9d6-46b4-bb28-5f18bcfb10d0. Cleveland Museum of Natural History 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
Global with a focus on the Americas and Africa.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Class | Mammalia |
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Additional Metadata
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| Alternative Identifiers | http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=cmnh_mammals |
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