UMNH Mammals Collection (Arctos)
Citation
Rickart E, Derieg K (2024). UMNH Mammals Collection (Arctos). Version 2.82. Natural History Museum of Utah (UMNH). Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/gmb1cy accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-14.Description
With approximately 40,000 specimens, the Museum's mammal collection is representative of the Intermountain West and Great Basin regions of the United States. In addition to study skins, skeletal material and fluid preserved specimens, the collection holds a tissue library of more than 9,000 samples for use in studies of comparative genetics. There are 40 holotypes of subspecies from Utah.
Taxonomic Coverages
The collection includes 40 holotypes of Utah mammals and nearly 300 species from 52 families and 13 orders.
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Mammaliarank: class
Geographic Coverages
Although the collection includes material from throughout the world, nearly 90% of the specimens are from Utah and surrounding states reflecting the work of Stephen Durrant and students on regional mammals. Important historical material includes several thousand specimens from the Bonneville Basin, as well as collections from Glen Canyon, Flaming Gorge, and other locations within the Colorado drainage that have since been inundated by reservoirs. Recent research by staff has focused on resurveying of historical sites in the Great Basin, expanding the collection material from Utah and Nevada.
Bibliographic Citations
Contacts
Eric Rickartoriginator
position: Curator of Vertebrate Zoology
Natural History Museum of Utah
301 Wakara Way
Salt Lake City
84108
UT
US
Telephone: +1 (801) 585-7759
email: rickart@umnh.utah.edu
homepage: https://nhmu.utah.edu
Katrina Derieg
metadata author
position: Vertebrate Zoology Collections Manager
Natural History Museum of Utah
301 Wakara Way
Salt Lake City
84108
UT
US
Telephone: +1 (801) 585-7759
email: kderieg@nhmu.utah.edu
homepage: https://nhmu.utah.edu
David Bloom
programmer
position: Coordinator
VertNet
email: dbloom@vertnet.org
homepage: http://www.vertnet.org
John Wieczorek
programmer
position: Information Architect
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley
email: tuco@berkeley.edu
Dusty McDonald
point of contact
position: Arctos Database Programmer
University of Alaska Museum
email: dlmcdonald@alaska.edu
homepage: http://arctos.database.museum
Eric Rickart
administrative point of contact
position: Curator of Vertebrate Zoology
Natural History Museum of Utah
301 Wakara Way
Salt Lake City
84108
UT
US
Telephone: +1 (801) 585-7759
email: rickart@umnh.utah.edu
homepage: https://nhmu.utah.edu