Description
Ornithology: More than 31,000 birds (study skins or mounted), eggs, and nests. In 2015-2017 we are reorganizing and rehousing the entire collection under a National Science Foundation CSBR grant. Mammalogy: More than 5,000 study skins, skulls, skeletons, fluid-preserved specimens, and mounted specimens. Our collection includes specimens collected by John Bowles which were transferred from Central College. Other vertebrates: A small number of reptiles, fish, and amphibians.
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 20,518 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
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
The University of Iowa, Museum of Natural History Vertebrate Collection (SUI)
Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Iowa 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: 04169fce-7d4f-41f7-9dff-245960f5b59e. University of Iowa Museum of Natural History publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Curator
Geographic Coverage
Ornithology and mammal collections global in coverage, with nearly complete series of North American birds, and including birds from Laysan Island, Caribbean, Central and South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Mammals primarily from North American Midwest, plus South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. Small collection of fish and herps from locations scattered across the globe.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Class | Aves (Birds), Mammalia (Mammals), Amphibia (Amphibians), Reptilia (Reptiles) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | c. 1860 to present |
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Additional Metadata
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| Alternative Identifiers | 04169fce-7d4f-41f7-9dff-245960f5b59e |
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