Description
The Mammals Collection of the Museum of Natural History was founded in 1989 and is represented by mammals of many parts of Guatemala. The database of this collection contains 4, 443 records corresponding to 27 families 94 genera and 150 species. The best represented orders are Rodentia, Chiroptera and Artiodactyla. The collection includes specimens prepared in different ways: skin and skull, skin and skeleton, only skin, only skull, bone remainders and fluid preserved individuals.
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 4,400 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:
Mammals Collections, Museo de Historia Natural, Escuela de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacia, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. Calle Mariscal Cruz 1-56 zona 10, Guatemala City, Guatemala, Central America
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Museo de Historia Natural de la USAC MUSHNAT. 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: fee15ebc-27ce-4aff-b912-2657bbd493d2. Museo de Historia Natural de la USAC MUSHNAT publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by VertNet.
Keywords
Guatemala; Central America; Rodentia; Chiroptera; Occurrence; Specimen
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Geographic Coverage
There are representatives of the 22 departments (departamentos)of Guatemala. Baja Verapaz is the one with the majority of mammal records, followed by Petén and Chiquimula
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [13.71, -92.33], North East [18.02, -88.99] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Mammals, principally Rodentia, Chiroptera and Soricomorpha.
| Order | Cingulata, Didelphimorphia, Pilosa, Primates, Lagomorpha, Soricomorpha, Chiroptera, Carnivora, Perissodactyla, Artiodactyla, Rodentia |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1989-01-02 / 2013-08-08 |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala |
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| Collection Identifier | USAC-mammals |
| Parent Collection Identifier | USAC |
Additional Metadata
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| Purpose | Academic |
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| Alternative Identifiers | fee15ebc-27ce-4aff-b912-2657bbd493d2 |
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