UMMZ Herpetology Collection

Alison Davis Rabosky

doi:10.15468/g3bard

UMMZ Herpetology Collection

Citation

Davis Rabosky A, Schneider G (2016). UMMZ Herpetology Collection. Version 7.1. University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/g3bard accessed via GBIF.org on 2018-12-10.

Description

The Division of Reptiles and Amphibians maintains a collection that is worldwide in scope. Presently, the research collections contain 197,469 (through catalogue number UMMZ 242,000) catalogued lots representing 433,505 individual specimens. These represent 1,067 genera and 5,323 species of which 13,818 specimens are skeletons. 99.9% of specimens are identified to genus, and 96% of specimens are identified to species. This includes 472 Primary Type specimens (representing 424 taxa) and 5,515 Paratypes (representing 804 taxa). The average growth over the last ten years has been nearly 1500 specimens per year. The auxiliary research collections contain 2,145 radiographs, 7,288 kodachrome slides, and 10,789 frozen tissue samples. All of the above mentioned collections have been inventoried and the data associated with them have been entered into computer databases in Filemaker Pro. A collection of 37 audio tapes containing hundreds of recordings of anuran vocalizations has been digitized and can now be accessed via the Division’s webpage, as well as catalogue records and digital images of all primary type specimens.

Additional info

http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html

Taxonomic Coverages

Amphibia
common name: amphibians rank: class
Reptilia
common name: reptiles rank: class

Geographic Coverages

The Division of Reptiles and Amphibians maintains a collection that is worldwide in scope.

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Alison Davis Rabosky
originator
position: Research Faculty and Assistant Curator
University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
1109 Geddes Ave., Room 1089 Ruthven
Ann Arbor
48109
MI
US
Telephone: +01 734-763-8694
email: ardr@umich.edu
homepage: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/ummz/default.asp

Greg Schneider
metadata author
position: Collection Manager
University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
1109 Geddes Ave., Room 2032 Ruthven
Ann Arbor
48109
MI
US
Telephone: +01 734-647-1927
email: ges@umich.edu
homepage: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/ummz/default.asp

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

Ron Nussbaum
point of contact
position: Professor and Curator
University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
1109 Geddes Ave., Room 2017 Ruthven
Ann Arbor
48109
MI
US
Telephone: +01 734-647-2201
email: nuss@umich.edu
homepage: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/ummz/default.asp

Dan Rabosky
point of contact
position: Assistant Professor and Assistant Curator
University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
1109 Geddes Ave., Room 2037 Ruthven
Ann Arbor
48109
MI
US
Telephone: +01 510-610-9082
email: drabosky@umich.edu
homepage: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/ummz/default.asp

John Torgersen
point of contact
position: Database Administrator
University of Michigan LSAIT - Infrastructure
LSA Building, 500 S. State Street, Suite 1112
Ann Arbor
48109
MI
US
Telephone: +01 734-615-1771
email: jtorg@umich.edu
homepage: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/lsait/

Greg Schneider
administrative point of contact
position: Collection Manager
University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
1109 Geddes Ave., Room 2032 Ruthven
Ann Arbor
48109
MI
US
Telephone: +01 734-647-1927
email: ges@umich.edu
homepage: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/ummz/default.asp