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PSM Vertebrates Collection

Dataset homepage

Citation

Shugart G (2023). PSM Vertebrates Collection. Version 8.4. Puget Sound Museum of Natural History. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/3oaz5o accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-06-19.

Description

Most of the specimens are from Washington, Oregon, and elsewhere in western North America, but many have been acquired from other parts of the world through collecting and exchange. Specimens are being continually acquired by the museum, and the collections are growing by 1-2%/year. Many skeletons of birds and mammals have been prepared to accompany the more traditional skin collections. Especially noteworthy are the largest collections of herps and bird eggs in the Northwest and, until very recently, the largest collection of mammals in the Northwest. The bird wing collection is also of special significance, as a fifth of the bird specimens in the collection have been prepared since 1990 and thus have associated wings. Because it contains series of many species of vertebrates from throughout western North America, the Puget Sound Museum is an excellent source of material for the study of geographic variation.

Additional info

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

Taxonomic Coverages

Geographic Coverages

Specimen are mostly from the Oregon, Washington, British Columbia.

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Gary Shugart
originator
position: Collections Manager
Puget Sound Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound
1500 N. Warner
Tacoma
98416
WA
US
Telephone: +01 206 949-9381
email: gshugart@pugetsound.edu
homepage: https://www.pugetsound.edu/puget-sound-museum-natural-history
Gary Shugart
metadata author
position: Collections Manager
Puget Sound Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound
1500 N. Warner
Tacoma
98416
WA
US
Telephone: +01 253-879-3356
email: gshugart@pugetsound.edu
homepage: https://www.pugetsound.edu/puget-sound-museum-natural-history
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
Gary Shugart
administrative point of contact
position: Collections Manager
Puget Sound Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound
1500 N. Warner
Tacoma
98416
WA
US
Telephone: +01 206 949-9381
email: gshugart@pugetsound.edu
homepage: https://www.pugetsound.edu/puget-sound-museum-natural-history
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