Description
The UNCG Parasite Collection is a collection of mammal-associated parasites of regional (North Carolina and the Southeastern U.S.) to national scope. Holdings are strong for ectoparasites of small mammals from montane ecosystems including the Southern Appalachian Mountains, Southern Rocky Mountains, and sky island ranges of the Great Basin. Most specimens are recent (2020 and after), maintained as fluid- or cryo-preserved lots, and linked to small mammal vouchers in the UNCG Mammal 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 680 records.
1 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:
Parasite Collection at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro Biodiversity Collections. Individual catalog records should be cited by the catalog record url: https://arctos.database.museum/guid/UNCG:Para: followed by the catalog record number.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of North Carolina at Greensboro. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: eb1e495d-fd39-4d6a-a367-6c5cdfccc3b4. University of North Carolina at Greensboro publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by VertNet.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence; Specimen
Contacts
- Metadata Provider
- Curator
https://orcid.org/https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1293-5298
- Metadata Provider
- Curator
Geographic Coverage
The UNCG Parasite Collection is of regional to national geographic scope. Holdings are strong from U.S. states of North Carolina, Virginia, and surrounding southeastern U.S., as well as Nevada and Utah.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Parasitic invertebrates
| Phylum | Arthropoda |
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| Order | Siphonaptera (fleas), Ixodida (ticks) |
| Infraorder | Phthiraptera (lice) |
Collection Data
| Collection Name | University of North Carolina Greensboro Parasite Collection |
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| Collection Identifier | https://arctos.database.museum/collection/UNCG:Para |
| Parent Collection Identifier | UNCG |
| Specimen preservation methods | Alcohol, Refrigerated, Deep frozen |
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Additional Metadata
Arctos Data Ownership and Use: http://arctosdb.org/home/data/; https://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html
| Alternative Identifiers | eb1e495d-fd39-4d6a-a367-6c5cdfccc3b4 |
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| https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=uncg_para |