HSU Vertebrate Museum Mammals Collection

Data as a DwC-A file	download 8,633 records in English (569 KB) - Update frequency: unknown
Metadata as an EML file	download in English (7 KB)
Metadata as an RTF file	download in English (7 KB)

Description

The Vertebrate Museum’s mammal collection contains approximately 8,750 specimens, including skins and skeletal material from a variety of terrestrial, aquatic, marine and volant mammals. The research collection is currently the second largest of its kind in the California State University System at over 8,000 specimens. The collection dates back to 1923 and is particularly strong in marine mammals of the Pacific Ocean and terrestrial mammals from northern California and the Great Basin. It is fully accredited by the American Society of Mammalogists. We also have an outstanding teaching collection of over 800 specimens, with exceptional coverage of the Orders and Families of living mammals.

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 8,633 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

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Humboldt State University Vertebrate Museum Mammals Collection

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Humboldt State University. 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: 62f37aae-c69a-422f-ad23-32bd92454806. Humboldt State University publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.