Description
The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences' Mammal Unit collection contains approximately 20,000 specimens and is one of the largest regional mammal collections in the southeast. The collection was accredited in 2000 by the American Society of Mammalogists. With early acquisitions from the Brimley brothers in the late 1800’s, the collection consists of 42% North Carolina, 81% Southeastern United States, 96% United States material, with the remainder having North American or other international origin. It encompasses the taxonomic units of 20 orders, 73 families, 237 genera, and over 500 unique Genus-species combinations. Holdings are especially strong in Rodentia, Soricimorpha, Chiroptera, Carnivora, Cetacea and Sirenia. Important recent acquisitions include University of Kentucky, George Mason University, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and personal collections. The collection includes study skins, tanned hides, skulls, complete skeletons, fluid-preserved material, tissues for molecular analyses, and other materials.
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 17,917 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:
Cove M, Gatens L, Norton B (2018): NCSM Mammalogy Collection. North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=ncsm_mammals. 10.36102/dwc.5
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: ea9f5b0b-ad97-45ea-935a-ba2784c80cbb. 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
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator
- Head of Technology
- 11 West Jones Street
- 919.707.9947
- Point Of Contact
- Collections Manager
- 11 West Jones Street
- 919-707-9946
- Curator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Research Curator, Mammalogy
- 11 West Jones Street
- 9197079944
Geographic Coverage
The Mammalogy Collection contains specimens from 38 countries.
| 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 | Mammalia |
| Order | Artiodactyla, Carnivora, Cetacea, Chiroptera, Didelphimorphia, Diprotodontia, Erinaceomorpha, Hyracoidea, Lagomorpha, Macroscelidea, Monotremata, Perissodactyla, Pholidota, Pilosa, Primates, Proboscidea, Rodentia, Sirenia, Soricomorpha, Xenarthra |
Collection Data
| Collection Name | Mammalogy Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences |
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| Collection Identifier | NCSM-Mammals |
| Parent Collection Identifier | Not applicable |
Additional Metadata
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| Alternative Identifiers | ea9f5b0b-ad97-45ea-935a-ba2784c80cbb |
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| 10.36102/dwc.5 | |
| http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=ncsm_mammals |