Description
The NSRL’s recent mammal collection houses more than 118,000 research specimens. Nearly 80% of these specimens are in the form of dried skin and/or skull and skeletal material preparations, while the rest are fluid-preserved specimens housed in a separate collection area. The dried skin and skeletal preparations are stored in 732 metal cabinets. These cabinets are specially designed to keep the specimens safe from UV light, dust, occasional insect pests, and other harmful agents. Every specimen is labeled with information concerning its species, sex, collector, preparator, collecting location, and other pieces of collecting data. Each specimen has also been given a catalog number and its data verified and entered into a searchable computer database. All specimens of the same species are stored together, organized by country, state, county, and finally catalog number. Groups of related species are housed in adjacent cases. As with the Genetic Resources Collection, the majority of these specimens in this collection are bar coded and a project is underway to bar code the rest to facilitate the retrieval of associated data and to reduce time and effort spent by the NSRL staff in maintaining an organized collection.
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 115,365 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:
TTU Mammals Collection
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Natural Science Research Laboratory, Museum of Texas Tech University (TTU). 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: 854f70cc-55e3-4af2-9417-0f47d6c7902d. Natural Science Research Laboratory, Museum of Texas Tech University (TTU) 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
- Curator
Geographic Coverage
The mammal collection represents a permanent record of the natural history of the Lubbock area, Texas, and the United States in general. In addition, through the efforts of faculty, research associates, and students of Texas Tech University, the fauna of many other countries, such as former Yugoslavia, Paraguay, Mexico, and Peru, are represented in the collections as well. Since 2001, multiple studies have been conducted in Ecuador, Honduras, and in the Ukraine, as well as continuing throughout Texas.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | ~1894-current year |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | Mammal Collection |
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| Collection Identifier | TTU-M |
| Parent Collection Identifier | Not Applicable |
| Curatorial Units | Between 30,500 and 32,000 fluid-preserved specimens , Between 76,500 and 78,000 skin and/or skeletal prepped specimens |
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Additional Metadata
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| Alternative Identifiers | 854f70cc-55e3-4af2-9417-0f47d6c7902d |
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| http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=ttu_mammals |