Description
The egg collection of the Delaware Museum of Nature & Science (DMNH, formerly known as Delaware Museum of Natural History) consists of approximately 36,000 clutches representing over 2,000 species. The collection is worldwide in scope, with particularly strong coverage of Florida (USA), Europe, and British Colonies. Formation of the collection began when the Museum was founded in 1957. Among the egg collections that can be found here are those of Captain Vivian Hewitt, Jeremiah Matthews Goodall, John "Jack" G. Gordon, D.F.S. MacArthur, A. H. Paget-Wilkes, Dr. Percy Rendall, Edward Charles Stuart-Baker, and Donald & Wray Nicholson.
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 97 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:
Delaware Museum of Natural History (DMNH) Egg Collection
Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Delaware Museum of Nature & Science. 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: 0150c79f-35f3-447f-a40f-24ee9f1fb9d3. Delaware 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
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Geographic Coverage
Collection is worldwide in scope with strengths in USA (Florida), Great Britain, Europe, and British Colonies.
Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Class Aves (Birds)
Class | Aves |
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Collection Data
Collection Name | Delaware Museum of Nature & Science (DMNH, formerly known as Delaware Museum of Natural History) Egg Collection |
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Collection Identifier | http://grbio.org/cool/w6fs-cpf5 |
Parent Collection Identifier | not applicable |
Specimen preservation methods | Dried |
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Additional Metadata
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Alternative Identifiers | 0150c79f-35f3-447f-a40f-24ee9f1fb9d3 |
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http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=dmnh_eggs |