FHSM Herps Collection

Occurrence
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Description

The Herpetology Collection at the Sternberg Museum of Natural History, Fort Hays State University (FHSM) contains more than 16,000 recent catalogued specimens. FHSM is a major repository for voucher, reference, and research specimens from the Great Plains and beyond. Since 2001 the collection has become a regionally significant tissue repository, as nearly all voucher specimens have ethanol preserved tissues available for use in molecular and genetic studies.

Data Records

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How to cite

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Fort Hays State University, Sternberg Museum of Natural History Herpetology Collection (FHSM-H)

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Fort Hays Sternberg 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: 84e823d2-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a.  Fort Hays Sternberg 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

Curtis Schmidt
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Collections Manager
Fort Hays State University, Sternberg Museum of Natural History
  • 3000 Sternberg Drive
67601 Hays
KS
US
  • +01 785-650-2447
Travis Taggart
  • Curator
  • Curator
Fort Hays State University, Sternberg Museum of Natural History
  • 3000 Sternberg Drive
67601 Hays
KS
US
  • +01 785-650-2445
Laura Russell
  • Programmer
  • Programmer
David Bloom
  • Programmer
  • Coordinator
John Wieczorek
  • Programmer
  • Information Architect
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley

Geographic Coverage

primarily from the Great Plains

Bounding Coordinates South West [3.75, -131.46], North East [52.36, -55.16]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Class Amphibia, Reptilia

Collection Data

Collection Name Fort Hays State University, Sternberg Museum of Natural History Herpetology Collection
Collection Identifier FHSM-H
Parent Collection Identifier not applicable
Specimen preservation methods Alcohol
Curatorial Units Between 16,000 and 17,000 specimens

Additional Metadata

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Alternative Identifiers 84e823d2-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a
http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=fhsm_herps