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Mammalogy Collection - Royal Ontario Museum
Latest version published by Royal Ontario Museum on Apr 4, 2018
The Mammal collection consists of 120,000 skins, skeletons, wet specimens and is strong in Chiroptera and New World Rodents. The geographic strengths are Ontario (pre-1985), Guyana, Suriname, Colombia, southeastern Asia, Kenya, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Approximately 24,000 of the more recent voucher specimens have associated frozen tissues.
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 119,382 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.
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| Data as a DwC-A file | download 119,382 records in English (4 MB) - Update frequency: unknown |
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| Metadata as an EML file | download in English (7 KB) |
| Metadata as an RTF file | download in English (6 KB) |
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Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Royal Ontario Museum. 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: c5c4a23e-2035-4416-ab64-032d6df52ddb. Royal Ontario Museum publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canada Biodiversity Information Facility.
Keywords
Occurrence;ROM; Royal Ontario Museum; Mammals; Chiroptera; New World Rodents; preserved specimens; Specimen
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Geographic Coverage
Specimens represent all continents and oceans.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | 1870 to present |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | Mammalogy |
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| Collection Identifier | http://grbio.org/cool/pawq-rs8t (urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34909) |
| Parent Collection Identifier | Royal Ontario Museum (urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34778) |
| Specimen preservation methods | Dried |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | c5c4a23e-2035-4416-ab64-032d6df52ddb |
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| http://gbif.rom.on.ca/ipt/resource?r=mamm |
