Description
The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences' Amphibians and Reptiles Unit contains approximately 262,000 specimens (81,350+ lots), and is one of the largest and most complete regional collections in the United States. Founded in the late 1800s, the collection consists of approximately 80% North Carolina material, although 47 states, 57 countries, and more than 640 species are represented. Other states with substantial representation include California, Delaware, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. Other countries with substantial representation include Laos, Vietnam, and Gabon, and the international focus of the collection is expanding. Important recent acquisitions include large collections from Duke and Virginia Commonwealth Universities, the University of North Carolina’s Institute of Marine Sciences, and the personal collection of the late E. E. Brown of Davidson College. The collection houses fluid-preserved specimens, skeletons, skins, tissues for molecular analyses, and other materials. Photographic vouchers, field notes, other museums’ records of North Carolina holdings, and specimen data sheets are also maintained as part of the materials documenting these resources.
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 59,632 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:
Stuart B, Beane J, Norton B (2014): NCSM Herpetology Collection. North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences. Dataset/Occurrence. https://doi.org/10.36102/dwc.3
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences. 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: d5fafa95-7de2-48c0-bf10-3480bcca4a2b. North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Specimen; Occurrence; Occurrence
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
Coverage spans at least 50 countries across the globe
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Kingdom | Animalia |
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| Phylum | Chordata |
| Class | Amphibia, Reptilia |
| Order | Amphisbaenia, Anura, Caudata, Crocodylia, Gymnophiona, Squamata, Testudines |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1895-03-30 / 2021-11-16 |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | Herpetology Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences |
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| Collection Identifier | NCSM-Herp |
| Parent Collection Identifier | Not applicable |
Additional Metadata
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| Alternative Identifiers | d5fafa95-7de2-48c0-bf10-3480bcca4a2b |
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| http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=ncsm_herps |