Description
A small but influential part of the Moore Laboratory of Zoology, this collection of over 2,000 mammals includes specimens collected by Chester C. Lamb and John C. Hafner. Many of these specimens are paired with skeletons, tissue, and chromosomal data.
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 2,176 records.
1 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:
Moore Laboratory of Zoology (MLZ)
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Moore Laboratory of Zoology. 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: 226b536c-25f9-4f6b-b144-edcbdffa3566. Moore Laboratory of Zoology 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
- Director/Curator
- 1600 Campus Road, Occidental College
- (323) 259-1352
- Point Of Contact
- Arctos Database Programmer
- Content Provider
- Collections Manager
- 1600 Campus Road, Occidental College
- (323) 259-1320
Geographic Coverage
Geographic strengths of the MLZ mammal collection are Mexico and the United States.
Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Taxonomic strengths of the MLZ mammal collection include Rodentia (1,865) and Chiroptera (171).
Class | Mammalia |
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Temporal Coverage
Living Time Period | 1913-present |
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Additional Metadata
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Alternative Identifiers | 226b536c-25f9-4f6b-b144-edcbdffa3566 |
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https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=mlz_mamm |