Description
Western New Mexico University houses a regional collection of mammal specimens (about 7000 specimens) focused on the biodiversity of southwestern New Mexico, with additional representatives of African and South American mammal faunas. This collection is part of the Gila Center for Natural History within the Department of Natural Sciences. The collection has grown slowly with incorporation of new specimens.
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 6,889 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:
Western New Mexico University Mammal Collection
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Western New Mexico University. 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: 8855595b-a836-4557-b17b-794aadda747a. Western New Mexico University publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Professor
- Department of Natural Sciences
- (575) 538-6519
- Point Of Contact
- Arctos Database Programmer
Geographic Coverage
The Western New Mexico University mammal collection has global holdings, but coverage is focused on New Mexico.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Class | Mammalia |
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Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | 1892-present |
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Additional Metadata
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| Alternative Identifiers | 8855595b-a836-4557-b17b-794aadda747a |
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| https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=wnmu_mamm |