Description
The Denver Museum of Nature & Science Parasite Collection houses approximately 6,000 specimens or specimen lots of ectoparasites and endoparasites. Parasite specimens are linked to DMNS bird and mammal hosts, primarily collected since 2006, with a focus on the Rocky Mountain and Great Plains regions. The collection is largely fluid, with some specimens mounted on slides.
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 452 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:
Denver Museum of Nature & Science Parasite Collection
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Denver Museum of Nature & Science. 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: e8c6d072-2955-4c3e-955c-d9dfb0a2f91d. Denver Museum of Nature & Science publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Curator of Vertebrate Zoology
- 2001 Colorado Blvd.
- +01 303-370-6443
- Point Of Contact
- Zoology Collections Manager
- 2001 Colorado Blvd.
- 303-370-8387
- Programmer
- Information Architect
- Point Of Contact
- Curator of Ornithology, Department of Zoology
- 2001 Colorado Blvd.
- (303) 370-6469
Geographic Coverage
The DMNS parasite collection is global, with the largest holdings from the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains region.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Class | Arachnida, Cestoda, Chromadorea, Insecta, Secernentea |
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Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | 2006-present |
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Additional Metadata
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| Purpose | Natural History Research and Education |
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| Alternative Identifiers | e8c6d072-2955-4c3e-955c-d9dfb0a2f91d |
| https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=dmn |