Description
The reptile collection at the Ohio Wesleyan University Museum of Natural History is strongly focused on lizards, though snakes, turtles, and crocodilians are also represented.
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 342 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:
Ohio Wesleyan University Museum of Natural History Reptile Collection
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Ohio Wesleyan University Museum of Natural History. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: a28138cb-d42a-460d-b16d-8ed2f911022f. Ohio Wesleyan University Museum of Natural History publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence; Specimen
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Student Curator
- 19706320027
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Curatorial Director
- 90 S Henry St, SCSC 166
- 1-740-368-3887
- Curator
- Assistant Professor of Zoology
- 1-740-368-3892
Geographic Coverage
Ohio, Texas, Seychelles
Bounding Coordinates | South West [23.322, -108.457], North East [49.382, -66.094] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Squamata, Crocodilia, Testudines
Class | Reptilia |
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Order | Squamata, Crocodilia, Testudines |
Temporal Coverage
Living Time Period | 1859-Present |
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Collection Data
Collection Name | Ohio Wesleyan University Reptile Specimens |
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Collection Identifier | https://arctos.database.museum/collection/OWU:Rept |
Parent Collection Identifier | OWU |
Additional Metadata
Arctos Data Ownership and Use: http://arctosdb.org/home/data/; http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html
Purpose | Reptile reference and teaching collection |
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Alternative Identifiers | OWMZ |
a28138cb-d42a-460d-b16d-8ed2f911022f | |
https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=owu_rept |