Description
The Perot Museum of Nature and Science maintains several natural history collections, ranging from ancient specimens in our paleontology and geology collections to recent zoological specimens such as birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, insects and shells. We also maintain the Mudge Library, a large collection of rare and important ornithological and zoological books, as well as the Museum's own collection records and historical archives. The collections of the Perot Museum were begun by the Dallas Museum of Natural History in the 1930s. With approximately 100,000 specimens currently catalogued, we continue to grow and expand the collection in support of ongoing research projects and discoveries. Collections are housed at both the Victory Park and Fair Park locations, where they are cared for by Karen Morton, our collections manager.
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 7,509 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:
Perot Museum of Nature and Science, Natural History Collections, Dallas, Texas, USA
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Perot Museum of Nature and Science. 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: 1ebf1564-949e-49ca-9f8b-e11ef68238db. Perot Museum of Nature and Science publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Vertebrates; Herpetology; Ichthyology; Mammalogy; Ornithology; Invertebrates; Entomology; Nematology; Natural Science; Occurrence; Specimen
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
The majority of our collection is from the southwestern US and Mexico, however, we do have a limited number of specimens collected from other parts of the world.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
The Perot Museum of Nature and Science maintains several natural history collections in paleontology, geology, ornithology, mammals, herpetology, and invertebrates. Our current online resource only covers ornithology and the colubrid snakes from our herpetology collection. Additional taxons will be added in the future.
| Class | Aves (Birds) |
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| Family | Colubridae (Colubrid snakes) |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date | 1936-01-01 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | Collection Manager |
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| Funding | Perot Museum of Nature and Science |
| Study Area Description | Collections |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | Perot Museum of Nature and Science |
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| Collection Identifier | PMNS |
| Parent Collection Identifier | PMNS |
| Specimen preservation methods | Other |
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| Curatorial Units | Between 800 and 900 Alcohol preserved specimens , Between 3,000 and 4,000 Study skins , Between 1,000 and 2,000 Taxidermy mounts |
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Additional Metadata
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| Alternative Identifiers | 1ebf1564-949e-49ca-9f8b-e11ef68238db |
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