NCSM Herpetology Collection

Ben Norton1, Bryan Stuart1

1 North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, 11 West Jones Street, 27601, Raleigh, United States

Corresponding author(s): Ben Norton (ben.norton@naturalsciences.org)Bryan Stuart (bryan.stuart@naturalsciences.org)

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Resource Citation

Stuart B, Beane J, Norton B (2014): NCSM Herpetology Collection. North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences. Dataset/Occurrence. https://doi.org/10.36102/dwc.3 10.36102/dwc.3

Abstract

The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences' Amphibians and Reptiles Unit contains approximately 262,000 specimens (81,350+ lots), and is one of the largest and most complete regional collections in the United States. Founded in the late 1800s, the collection consists of approximately 80% North Carolina material, although 47 states, 57 countries, and more than 640 species are represented. Other states with substantial representation include California, Delaware, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. Other countries with substantial representation include Laos, Vietnam, and Gabon, and the international focus of the collection is expanding. Important recent acquisitions include large collections from Duke and Virginia Commonwealth Universities, the University of North Carolina’s Institute of Marine Sciences, and the personal collection of the late E. E. Brown of Davidson College. The collection houses fluid-preserved specimens, skeletons, skins, tissues for molecular analyses, and other materials. Photographic vouchers, field notes, other museums’ records of North Carolina holdings, and specimen data sheets are also maintained as part of the materials documenting these resources.

Keywords: Specimen, Occurrence, Occurrence

General description

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Data published through GBIF: http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=ncsm_herps

Taxonomic coverage

Taxonomic ranks
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia, Reptilia
Order: Amphisbaenia, Anura, Caudata, Crocodylia, Gymnophiona, Squamata, Testudines

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Coverage spans at least 50 countries across the globe
Coordinates: 90°0'0''S and 90°0'0''N Latitude; 180°0'0''W and 180°0'0''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: March 30, 1895 - November 16, 2021

Natural collections description

Parent collection identifier: Not applicable
Collection name: Herpetology Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
Collection identifier: NCSM-Herp

Methods

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Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive NCSM Herpetology Collection
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/archive.do?r=ncsm_herps
Publication date of data: 2023-06-08
Language: English
Licences of use: Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2014-03-24
Hierarchy level: Dataset