Colección de reptiles del Museo de Historia Natural "Gustavo Orcés V." de la Escuela Politécnica Nacional

Monica A. Guerra; Ana Almendáriz; Diego Almeida

doi:10.60545/k5s9xs

Colección de reptiles del Museo de Historia Natural "Gustavo Orcés V." de la Escuela Politécnica Nacional

Citation

Guerra M A, Almendáriz A, Almeida D (2024). Colección de reptiles del Museo de Historia Natural "Gustavo Orcés V." de la Escuela Politécnica Nacional. Museo de Historia Natural "Gustavo Orcés V.". Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.60545/k5s9xs accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-11.

Description

The reptile collection at the Natural History Museum Gustavo Orcés V. at Escuela Politécnica Nacional (MEPN-H) in Quito currently houses 5,405 specimens: 5,146 Squamates, 186 Testudines, and 73 Crocodylia.

Sampling Description

Study Extent

The Reptile Collection of the Natural History Museum Gustavo Orcés at Escuela Politécnica Nacional (MEPN-H) encompasses specimens from all 24 provinces in Ecuador, including the Galapagos Islands.

Sampling

Sampling methods vary among collectors and projects. Most of them, include Visual Encounter Surveys (VES), sampling plots or linear transects.

Method steps

This database comprises a compilation of physical and digital catalogs from the Herpetology Collection of Escuela Politécnica Nacional.

Taxonomic Coverages

Squamata
rank: order
Testudines
rank: order
Crocodylia
rank: order

Geographic Coverages

Collection sites encompass both continental and insular regions of Ecuador.

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Monica A. Guerra
originator
position: Curator of Herpetology
Escuela Politécnica Nacional
EC
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4548-8279

Ana Almendáriz
originator
position: Former Curator of Herpetology
Escuela Politécnica Nacional
EC
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3409-9673

Diego Almeida
originator
position: Collection manager
Escuela Politécnica Nacional
EC

Monica A. Guerra
metadata author
position: Curator of Herpetology
Escuela Politécnica Nacional
EC
email: maguerraec@gmail.com
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4548-8279

Ana Almendáriz
metadata author
position: Former Curator of Herpetology
Escuela Politécnica Nacional
EC
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3409-9673

Diego Almeida
metadata author
position: Collection manager
Escuela Politécnica Nacional
EC

Monica A. Guerra
curator
position: Curator of Herpetology
Escuela Politécnica Nacional
EC
email: maguerraec@gmail.com
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4548-8279

Monica A. Guerra
administrative point of contact
position: Curator of Herpetology
Escuela Politécnica Nacional
EC
email: maguerraec@gmail.com
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4548-8279