Description
The National Collections of Natural History at the Steinhardt Museum comprise over five million specimens that document nature over millennia, as well as the history and development of culture in the Levant region. This dynamic documentation is essential for a wide range of research topics in biology, archeology, and anthropology, as well as for applied research that supports a wide range of applied policy-relevant studies, primarily focused on agriculture and environmental conservation and health. Accordingly, the collections serve hundreds of scientists and professionals every year. Specimens are collected by the Museum’s scientists and their students in the course of their research. Birds and mammals are usually individuals that died in the wild and were collected by Israel Nature and Parks Authority rangers or from the wildlife hospital. Additionally, scientists from many other institutions transfer specimens or whole collections to our museum, to ensure their preservation for the benefit of science. Similarly, smaller museum collections and private collections are assimilated into the Steinhardt Museum collections in order to guarantee their preservation and make them accessible to the scientific community.
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 10,086 records.
3 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:
Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv, Vertebrate Collections
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History. 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: 288e1f4c-7c09-4604-ad19-920a61c55462. The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence
Contacts
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- Point Of Contact
Geographic Coverage
Emphasis on Israel, with additional collections from locations in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [25.165, 16.523], North East [44.088, 46.055] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Class | Aves, Mammalia, Reptilia, Amphibia, Actinopteri, Actinopterygii, Elasmobranchii, Holocephali |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1958-05-17 / 2019-12-19 |
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Project Data
The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History houses the largest, most important collection of East Mediterranean vertebrates (marine and fresh water, desert and Mediterranean vegetation) in the world. It contains thousands of tissue samples of taxa: from geographic variants to species and higher taxa not represented anywhere else. This project aims to catalog these samples making our database compliant with GGBN data standards.
| Title | Digitizing the major vertebrate tissue collection in the Middle East |
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| Funding | This material is based upon work supported by the Global Genome Initiative under Award No. GGI-GGBN-2020-270 |
| Study Area Description | SMNH Collection |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Principal Investigator
Collection Data
| Collection Name | Aves |
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| Collection Name | Amphibia |
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| Collection Name | Pisces |
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| Collection Name | Reptilia |
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| Collection Name | Mammalia |
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| Specimen preservation methods | Alcohol, Deep frozen |
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Additional Metadata
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| Alternative Identifiers | 288e1f4c-7c09-4604-ad19-920a61c55462 |
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| http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=smnhtau_verts |