Description
KU herpetology houses one of the largest herpetology collections in the world (340,000 specimens representing more than 5000 species from 156 countries). The KU collections include the world’s largest collection of neotropical amphibian and reptile specimens (200,000+) as well as substantial numbers of Nearctic (80,000+) and Asian (20,000+) specimens. KU holdings are particularly strong for the U.S., Ecuador, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Costa, Rica, Haiti, the Philippines, Peru and Panama. The collection from Kansas is the state’s largest (20,000+). The type collection includes nearly 400 primary types, mostly amphibians. KU Herpetology also maintains 5000 cleared-and-stained osteological preparations, nearly 5000 dried skeletons, and one of the world’s largest collections of amphibian larvae (6000+ lots). The KU digital archive includes more than 12,000 digital images and more than 1500 acoustic recordings.
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 351,407 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.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute. 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: dce00a1f-f6b4-4e11-9771-92c62c40ad80. University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence
Contacts
- Originator
- Bioinformatics Manager
- 1345 Jayhawk Blvd
- +01 (785) 864-3863
- Point Of Contact
- Curator-in-Charge of Herpetology
- 1345 Jayhawk Blvd
- +01 (785) 864-3403
- Point Of Contact
- Curator
- 1345 Jayhawk Blvd
- +01 (785) 864-3403
- Point Of Contact
- Curator
- 1345 Jayhawk Blvd
- +01 (785) 864-6875
- Point Of Contact
- Collection Manager
- 1345 Jayhawk Blvd
- +01 (785) 864-4508
- Curator
- Curator of Herpetology
- 1345 Jayhawk Blvd
- +1 (785) 864-6875
Additional Metadata
Additional information for data from the Philippines are available upon request. http://biodiversity.ku.edu/research/university-kansas-biodiversity-institute-data-publication-and-use-norms
| Alternative Identifiers | dce00a1f-f6b4-4e11-9771-92c62c40ad80 |
|---|---|
| http://ipt.nhm.ku.edu/resource?r=kubi_herps |