This dataset contains general research observations of vertebrates made by faculty, staff, and students of Arizona State University.

The Herpetology Collection at the ASU Natural History Collections contains approximately 38,000 specimens representing more than 900 species, with a geographic concentration in the western United States and northwestern Mexico. Please note: when searching our collection, all catalog numbers follow the format ASUHEC######

The Arizona State University Herpetology Photo Observation Database is a citizen science repository of photographs illustrating observations of amphibians and reptiles across the North American Southwest, with an emphasis on Arizona. To submit an observation, please see the form and instructions at the Homepage link below.

The Ichthyology Collection at the ASU Natural History Collections contains approximately 22,000 lots representing more than 580 species, with a geographic concentration in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. Please note: when searching our collection, all catalog numbers follow the format ASUFIC######.

The Mammalogy Collection at the ASU Natural History Collections contains approximately 9,000 specimens representing more than 160 species, with a geographic concentration in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. The research collection represents the second-largest mammal collection in Arizona. A teaching collection is housed separately. Please note: when searching our collection, all catalog numbers follow the format ASUMAC######

The Ornithology Collection at the ASU Natural History Collections contains approximately 2,000 specimens representing more than 300 species, with a geographic concentration in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. To date, approximately half of the collection has been digitized and is accessible in the portal. Please note: when searching our collection, all catalog numbers follow the format ASUORC######.

The Arizona State University Vertebrate Tissue Collection was established in 2020 to house tissues from specimens collected by researchers as well as salvaged specimens donated by the public. These specimens are preserved at -80 degrees Celsius for use in molecular and histological analyses; in many cases, multiple tissue types are available for a given individual. Please note: when searching our collection, all catalog numbers follow the format ASUVTC######. Values in the "Other Catalog Numbers" field correspond to the six digit locus number of the sample and the ASU number for the parent specimen, if applicable.

This collection node represents the herptile collections of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) Biorepository housed at the Arizona State University biocollections.

The fish are collected as part of standard aquatic sampling:

https://biorepo.neonscience.org/portal/collections/misc/collprofiles.php?collid=20

This collection node represents the herptile collections of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) Biorepository housed at Arizona State University. These collections are also searchable at biorepo.neonscience.org. For loan requests, please email biorepo@asu.edu.

Specimens included here belong to the following two collections of herptile specimens collected as bycatch from carabid beetle pitfall trapping:

https://biorepo.neonscience.org/portal/collections/misc/collprofiles.php?collid=12

https://biorepo.neonscience.org/portal/collections/misc/collprofiles.php?collid=15

And herptiles collected as bycatch from small mammal trapping:

https://biorepo.neonscience.org/portal/collections/misc/collprofiles.php?collid=70

This collection node represents the mammal voucher collections of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) Biorepository housed at Arizona State University. Collections are also searchable at biorepo.neonscience.org. For loan requests, please contact biorepo@asu.edu.

This collection includes voucher specimens from standard small mammal trapping:

https://biorepo.neonscience.org/portal/collections/misc/collprofiles.php?collid=28

Mammal vouchers from non-standard trapping events:

https://biorepo.neonscience.org/portal/collections/misc/collprofiles.php?collid=19

And mammal vouchers collected as bycatch from carabid beetle pitfall traps:

https://biorepo.neonscience.org/portal/collections/misc/collprofiles.php?collid=17

The Bavispe National Flora and Fauna Protected Area in Sonora, Mexico is comprised of 456,382 acres of oak woodland and pine-oak habitat. Three park units protect parts of the Sierra los Ajos, Sierra Madera, and the El Tigre mountain ranges. This refuge is managed by Mexico's National Commission of Natural Protected Areas (Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas). Records within this dataset are provided by CONANP biologist who manage the reserve and many are collected using remote cameras.

Geographic representation: Emphasis in the Great Basin (especially Utah and Nevada) and Mexico.

Accredited by the American Society of Mammalogists (1991)

The collection includes skins, skulls, skeleton, tissue slides, paraffin tissue blocks, and trophies. It also houses the collection that was formerly at Utah State University as well as a portion of the University of Illinois Museum of Natural History collection (specimens from Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Washington, Wyoming and Mexico).

The Reference Collection at Del Valle University contains a wide range of specimens from Guatemala; making it one of the largest collections in Central America. It was established in 1976 and has been developed by various scientists, students, and collaborators since then. The Collection has been broadly used for research purposes and academic uses helping not only local but also international researchers. Physical address: 18 Avenida 11-95 zona 15, Vista Hermosa III. Guatemala, Guatemala.

The CBUCES-A (Birds) collection holds information and biological material from different Colombian birds, including local and migratory specimens. The collection contributes to the identification and study of birds ecology, evolution, diversity, conservation, genetics, parasitism and biogeography.

The CBUCES-D (Herpetology) collection holds amphibians and reptiles, including adults as well as intermediate forms like larvae and eggs. The deposited material is composed of the specimens collected by the Ecology and Biology undergraduate students in their academic activities and also the environmental impact studies from consultant companies.

The Colorado State University Biology Collection contains mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians. These are primarily Colorado species, and primarily collected in Colorado and surrounding states. There are a few exotic specimens but these are in the minority. Most of the collection is from the mid 1900s but ranges from the 1880s to current day. The majority of the birds and mammals are study skins and skulls. The majority of the herps are fluid preserved. The collection also contains a variety of other specimen types (e.g. bacula, fluid-preserved organs, articulated skeletons, etc).

La Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (Conabio) es una comisión intersecretarial, creada en 1992 con carácter de permanente. El Presidente de la Comisión es el titular del Ejecutivo Federal, C. Felipe Calderón Hinojosa. El Secretario Técnico es el titular de la Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (Semarnat), C. Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada y participan los titulares de nueve secretarías más: Agricultura, Ganadería, Desarrollo Rural, Pesca y Alimentación (Sagarpa), Desarrollo Social (Sedesol), Economía (SE), Educación Pública (SEP), Energía (Sener), Hacienda y Crédito Público (SHCP), Relaciones Exteriores (SRE), Salud (SSA) y Turismo (Sectur).

This is a collection of field observations submitted by the field researchers, wildlife managers, and the general user community.

This collection contains vertebrate observations made by Laura Steger and Rick Overson. The observations come primarily from the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico. If you have any questions about the data in this collection, please reach out to us.

Sky Island Alliance's MABA project is a visionary initiative to catalog, protect, and restore one of the world's premier biodiversity hotspots. Over the next few years we will inventory the wildlands and wildlife of the Sonoran Sky Islands, a region of incredible biological wealth, while implementing community-based conservation, restoration and education activities that are key to the integrity of natural and human environments.

The Middlebury College Vertebrate Collection holds over 1,000 specimens of birds, mammals, fishes, amphibians and reptiles, with a geographical focus on Vermont. Our bird collection includes over 300 birds collected between 1886 and 1890 in Vermont as well as some recent ones. Most bird specimens are skins and taxidermy mounts, but we also own a few boxes of eggs dating back to the 1800s. Our mammal collection includes skins, skulls, bones and taxidermy mounts, mostly collected between 1940 and 1980 in Vermont, Florida, New York and several other states. Most of our fishes, amphibians and reptiles are fluid-preserved teaching specimens, collected in the 1990s in the Addison County, Vermont.

The Zoology Museum of the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras was initiated in the early 1960’s. It is a repository of animals containing approximately 60,000 specimens, primarily from Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. Most important current holdings include Puerto Rican amphibians and reptiles, marine mammal bones, mollusks, millipedes, and arachnids. The Zoology Museum is a public resource facility that is available to the academic community and the general public. For loans or for individuals or groups that are interested in visiting, please contact Dr. James D. Ackerman, Director (ackerman.upr[at]gmail.com), or Mr. Mahmoud Aboukheir, Collections Manager (museozoologiauprrp[at]gmail.com). Special arrangements can be made for off-island visitors.

The birds' collection of the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural “Prof. Eugenio de Jesús Marcano” (MNHNSD-AVES) houses around 1090 specimens. These specimens belong to 62 families, 161 genera, and 212 species, of which 28 are endemics to Hispaniola Island. Of all registers, 99 % are identified to species level and around 510 registers have been digitized. Most of the records are from Hispaniola, specifically from the Dominican Republic, dating from 1970 to the present, however, the collection also contains a few specimens from the United States of America, South America, and the Caribbean countries which were received through donations. The birds’ orders represented in the collection are all those recorded from Hispaniola: Accipitriformes, Anseriformes, Apodiformes, Caprimulgiformes, Cathartiformes, Charadriiformes, Columbiformes, Coraciiformes, Cuculiformes, Falconiformes, Galliformes, Gruiformes, Passeriformes, Pelecaniformes, Phoenicopteriformes, Piciformes, Podicipediformes, Psittaciformes, Strigiformes, Suliformes, and Trogoniformes.

The bats’ collection of the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural “Prof. Eugenio de Jesús Marcano” (MNHNSD-MUR) houses 1190 specimens, belonging to 6 families, 17 genera, and 18 species. About half of these registers (41 %) are digitalized, and represent of 5 families, 13 genera and 14 species.

The Herpetological collection of the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural “Prof. Eugenio de Jesús Marcano” (MNHNSD-HERP) houses more than 1 500 lots containing around 6 300 specimens belonging to 4 orders, 22 families, 29 genera and 149 species. Most of these records are from Hispaniola, specifically from Dominican Republic, dating from 1958 to present; however, the collection also contains a few specimens from other Caribbean countries which were received through donations.

The present dataset contains 825 registers but it will be constantly growing with the digitalization of more records.

The Museum of Texas Tech University's Natural Science Research Laboratory Mammal Collection has mammal specimens from Texas, the southwestern U.S, and many other countries, such as Ecuador, Honduras, former Yugoslavia, Paraguay, Mexico, Ukraine, and Peru. Nearly 80 percent of the specimens are in the form of dried skin and/or skull and skeletal material preparations, while the rest are fluid-preserved. Many specimens, particularly those collected after the mid-1970s, have corresponding frozen tissue samples as well.

Global collection of birds with skins, skeletal materials, tissues, fluids, skulls, nests, with a focus on Texas species.

Este conjunto de datos presenta los registros de peces (Chordata: Actinopterygii) asociados al Parque Nacional Lago Enriquillo y acuíferos relacionados.  Los datos corresponden al proyecto «Efectos de los cambios recientes por la crecida del Lago Enriquillo en las comunidades de peces y evaluación de especies con potencial para consumo regional». Este es el lago más grande del Caribe (350 km²), es un sitio RAMSAR y se incluye dentro de una reserva de la Biosfera. Las colectas se realizaron entre 2014 a 2016. Este proyecto recibió financiamiento de FONDOCYT (No. 2013-1E3-119). La creación del perfil de este conjunto de datos en el portal Consortium of Small Vertebrate Collections de Symbiota fue posible gracias a la colaboración con el Biodiversity Knowledge Integration Center (BioKIC), Arizona State University. El trabajo de movilización y digitalización de los datos se realizó bajo el financiamiento del Programa Biodiversity Information for Development (project BID-CA2020-031-NAC) de la Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) y la Unión Europea.

Mammal collection housed at The Rocky Mountain Bioloagical Laboratory. Most specimens are student preparations from Mammalogy course taught at RMBL since ca. 1949.

Sagehen Creek Field Station was founded in 1951 and is located within the +/- 9000 acre Sagehen Experimental Forest. The basin encompasses a diverse cross-section of the central Sierra Nevada from the Pacific Crest (el. 8500 ft) to the eastern slope (el. 6000 ft). Habitats include yellow pine, mixed conifer, and red fir forests, as well as brush fields, scattered mountain meadows, and fens. The collection is largely taken from the basin in the 1960's, though there are some non-local specimens collected by the same researchers and students as well.

The San Diego State University Biodiversity Museum houses thousands of plant and animal specimens. This resource is available for research and teaching to both students and faculty and is located at the university in rooms within the Life Science buildings. Our museum is known to be one of the richest university collections in the nation and includes both native and exotic species of birds, mammals, fish, reptiles, amphibians, arthropods, and plants. Some of the specimens housed in the museum are quite rare and a few date back as far as the 1800's.

The purpose of the museum is to provide instructional models for teaching all levels of biology with a broad taxonomic representation. It is used by professors and graduate students for research in the areas of systematics, evolution, paleontology and anthropology. Many graduate students rely on the extensive data provided by the museum to research and produce their thesis projects, as it is extremely helpful for the identification of live plants and animals.

In 2001, Sky Island Alliance developed a citizen science project that uses animal track and sign identification surveys to monitor at-risk wildlife linkages (animal movement corridors) throughout southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico. This effort became the Wildlife Linkages Program, which aims to protect and advocate for an interconnected landscape where wildlife, based on their ecological needs, can move easily between core habitats, the Sky Island mountain ranges.

The collection contains approximately 1500 preserved liquid specimens of fishes primarily occurring in the southeastern United States.

La sierra de Sonora cuenta con una riqueza natural y paisajística única. Su diversidad de formas biológicas es muestra de su riqueza florística. De la misma manera, los diferentes ecosistemas albergan una riqueza faunística singular. La presente base de datos pretende conjuntar los esfuerzos de estudiantes, profesores y publico en general para recolectar imágenes y video de los avistamientos en campo

The University of Arizona's Bird Collection containing over 18,000 cataloged specimens is the largest bird collection in the state. The Museum maintains a traditional study skin collection as well as a wing and tail, skeletal, and nest and egg collection. Originally begun in 1884 by Arizona resident Herbert Brown, the bird collection has seen periodic growth over time due to the efforts of some of the nation's best ornithologists. The Bird Collection remains dedicated to preserving the treasures of the region, while also promoting education and awareness to the public.

The Mammal Collection contains over 25,000 specimens including skins and skeletons. Its main geographic coverage is Arizona and Sonora but there is also broad, worldwide representation at the family level. This is the largest mammal collection in the state, and it has ranked 21st in size among all North American collections of Recent mammals. The Mammal Collection was built by several individuals starting with Herbert Brown around the turn of the century. In particular, Emeritus Professor Lendell Cockrum was its main developer and he continues to be actively interested in the collection. Dr. Michael Nachman is the Curator of Mammalogy and Dr. Yar Petryszyn is Collection Manager.

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The UCO mammal collection consists of over 7,300 skins, skulls, alcohol-preserved specimens, taxidermy mounts, skeletal material and plaster casts of tracks. The collection emphasis is mammals of Oklahoma.

UWSP has the second largest mammal collection in Wisconsin. The approximately 10,000 specimens consists primarily of study skins and skeletal material with a small number of fluid specimens and frozen tissue.

Avian taxidermy study skins. A majority of the specimens were found and prepared by students while others were purchased or donated as teaching tools.