Description
The Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections (formerly the Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collection - TCWC), is the natural history collection maintained by the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University in College Station Texas.
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 264,365 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:
Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Texas A&M University Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections. 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: b6015b60-6f96-43a9-88e5-2f41854e8f07. Texas A&M University Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
amphibians reptiles fishes mammals birds; amphibians reptiles fishes mammals birds; Museum specimens Voucher specimens; Occurrence; Occurrence
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
Collection geographic strengths are Texas, United States, Mexico, Central and South America. Aquatic holdings are strong from Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic Ocean, and freshwater locals as above.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections (TCWC Vertebrates) include collections of birds, mammals, amphibians, reptiles, and fishes.
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date | 1877-01-01 |
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Project Data
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| Title | Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections |
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The personnel involved in the project:
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | Vertebrate Collection |
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| Collection Identifier | TCWC |
| Parent Collection Identifier | TCWC |
Additional Metadata
In most cases geospatial data are available for specimens in our collection. To request more detailed locality information please contact us. http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html
| Alternative Identifiers | TCWC |
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| b6015b60-6f96-43a9-88e5-2f41854e8f07 | |
| https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=tcwc_verts |