Reptile Specimens

Cameron Siler1, Paul King1, Kyle Wilson1, Tracy Bidwell1, Jessa Watters1

1 Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, 2401 Chautauqua Ave., 73072, Norman, United States

Corresponding author(s): Cameron Siler (camsiler@ou.edu), Paul King (pking@ou.edu)

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Abstract

The Herpetology collection currently contains nearly 52,000 cataloged specimens of amphibians and reptiles. A large proportion of the collection is composed of amphibians and reptiles from the United States (46 states are represented), and many of these species are from the Southern Plains and Oklahoma. Approximately 60% (~31,000 specimens) of the collection is made up of Oklahoma specimens, making it the largest repository of Oklahoma reptiles. The collection also contains specimens from a total of 50 countries, with relatively large numbers from Brazil, Mexico, Ecuador, and Egypt. An early collection of specimens is from the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador.

Keywords: Occurrence, Reptile, Specimen

General description

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Data published through GBIF: http://65.52.215.125/ipt/resource?r=reptile

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Global
Coordinates: 90°0'0''S and 90°0'0''N Latitude; 180°0'0''W and 180°0'0''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: January 1, 1904

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Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Reptile Specimens
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://65.52.215.125/ipt/archive.do?r=reptile
Publication date of data: 2019-10-26
Language: English
Licences of use: Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2014-03-06
Hierarchy level: Dataset