TTU Mammals Collection
Citation
Garner H (2016). TTU Mammals Collection. Version 9.1. Natural Science Research Laboratory, Museum of Texas Tech University (TTU). Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/yocqyp accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-05-31.Description
The NSRL’s recent mammal collection houses more than 118,000 research specimens. Nearly 80% of these specimens are in the form of dried skin and/or skull and skeletal material preparations, while the rest are fluid-preserved specimens housed in a separate collection area. The dried skin and skeletal preparations are stored in 732 metal cabinets. These cabinets are specially designed to keep the specimens safe from UV light, dust, occasional insect pests, and other harmful agents. Every specimen is labeled with information concerning its species, sex, collector, preparator, collecting location, and other pieces of collecting data. Each specimen has also been given a catalog number and its data verified and entered into a searchable computer database. All specimens of the same species are stored together, organized by country, state, county, and finally catalog number. Groups of related species are housed in adjacent cases. As with the Genetic Resources Collection, the majority of these specimens in this collection are bar coded and a project is underway to bar code the rest to facilitate the retrieval of associated data and to reduce time and effort spent by the NSRL staff in maintaining an organized collection.Additional info
http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.htmlTaxonomic Coverages
Geographic Coverages
The mammal collection represents a permanent record of the natural history of the Lubbock area, Texas, and the United States in general. In addition, through the efforts of faculty, research associates, and students of Texas Tech University, the fauna of many other countries, such as former Yugoslavia, Paraguay, Mexico, and Peru, are represented in the collections as well. Since 2001, multiple studies have been conducted in Ecuador, Honduras, and in the Ukraine, as well as continuing throughout Texas.
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Contacts
Heath Garneroriginator
position: Curator of Collections
Natural Science Research Laboratory, Museum of TTU
3301 4th Street, PO Box 43191
Lubbock
79409
TX
US
Telephone: +01 806-742-2486
email: heath.garner@ttu.edu
homepage: http://www.nsrl.ttu.edu
Heath Garner
metadata author
position: Curator of Collections
Natural Science Research Laboratory, Museum of TTU
3301 4th Street, PO Box 43191
Lubbock
79409
TX
US
Telephone: +01 806-742-2486
email: heath.garner@ttu.edu
homepage: http://www.nsrl.ttu.edu
David Bloom
programmer
position: VertNet Programmer
VertNet
email: dbloom@vertnet.org
homepage: http://www.vertnet.org
David Bloom
programmer
position: VertNet 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
Robert Baker
curator
position: NSRL Director/Curator of Mammals & GRC
Museum of Texas Tech University
3301 4th Street, BOX 43191
Lubbock
79409-3191
TX
US
Telephone: 806-834-3678
email: robert.baker@ttu.edu
homepage: http://www.nsrl.ttu.edu/personnel/RJBaker/index.htm
Robert Bradley
curator
position: Curator of Mammals
Museum of Texas Tech University
3301 4th Street, BOX 43191
79409-3191
TX
US
Telephone: 806-834-1303
email: robert.bradley@ttu.edu
homepage: http://www.nsrl.ttu.edu/personnel/RDBradley/index.htm
Heath Garner
administrative point of contact
position: Curator of Collections
Natural Science Research Laboratory, Museum of TTU
3301 4th Street, PO Box 43191
Lubbock
79409
TX
US
Telephone: +01 806-742-2486
email: heath.garner@ttu.edu
homepage: http://www.nsrl.ttu.edu