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Kenya Virtual Museum Records

Dataset homepage

Citation

Navarro R, Jackson C (2025). Kenya Virtual Museum Records. Version 1.42. FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/jolylt accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-05-12.

Description

This data-set contains Virtual Museum records for Kenya, it is part of the project "Prioritizing conservation management in an East African forest landscape" (Project ID BID-AF2017-0274-NAC).

The Virtual Museum (VM) is a database system and corresponding web front-end, it is a research tool with the following main objectives: (1) to provide a platform for citizen scientists to contribute to science-driven biodiversity projects; submitted records are identified and vetted online by a panel of experts; (2) to serve as a repository for the long term curation of distributional data sets; (3) to provide open access to distributional data in the form of maps and lists. The VM has been used as the platform for the Conservation Assessment of reptiles, butterflies, mammals and birds. Currently the VM hosts 17 biodiversity projects: BirdPix (bird pictures archive), BOP (odd plumages of birds), DungBeetleMAP (atlas of dung beetles, Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), EchinoMAP (atlas of African Echinoderma , sea stars, sea urchins and brittle stars), FishMAP (atlas of freshwater fish in southern and eastern Africa), FrogMAP (atlas of African frogs), LacewingMAP (atlas of African Neuroptera and Megaloptera), MushroomMAP (atlas of South African Mushrooms), OdonataMAP (atlas of African Odonata), OrchidMAP (atlas of African Orchids), PHOWN (photos of weaver nests), LepiMAP (atlas of African Lepidoptera), ReptileMAP (atlas of African Reptiles), ScorpionMAP (atlas of African Scorpions), SpiderMAP (atlas of African Spiders), MammalMAP (atlas of African Mammals), TreeMAP (atlas of South African trees).

Sampling Description

Study Extent

Virtual Museum data consist mostly of photographic records submitted by citizen scientists across Africa.

Sampling

The Virtual Museum consists of photographic records submitted by citizen scientists, the data includes locality description and precise point-location data. However, the coordinates of the data presented here are given as the center-point of a 15x15 minute grid. The VM system can also include other type of data: sighting data, museum (specimen) records, camera-trap records, and literature records.

Quality Control

Identification of photographic records is done by an appointed panel of taxonomic experts in the respective taxa that the various projects hosted by the Virtual Museum system.

Method steps

  1. The Virtual Museum consists of photographic records submitted by citizen scientists, the data includes locality description and precise point-location data.

Taxonomic Coverages

Most occurrence correspond to photographic records identified to species level by an appointed panel of taxonomic experts in each major taxa covered by the data set.
  1. Aves
    common name: Birds rank: class
  2. Scarabaeidae
    common name: Dung Beetles rank: family
  3. Echinodermata
    common name: sea stars, sea urchins and brittle stars rank: phylum
  4. Osteichthyes
    common name: fishes rank: class
  5. Amphibia
    common name: Frogs rank: class
  6. Reptilia
    common name: reptiles rank: class
  7. Mammalia
    common name: Mammals rank: class
  8. Neuroptera
    common name: Lacewings, Ant lions rank: order
  9. Megaloptera
    common name: Alderflies, Dobsonflies rank: order
  10. Lepidoptera
    common name: Butterflies, Moths rank: order
  11. Scorpiones
    common name: Scorpions rank: order
  12. Araneae
    common name: Spiders rank: order

Geographic Coverages

This resource covers Virtual Museum records throughout Kenya.

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Rene Navarro
originator
position: Information Systems Specialist
FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology
Rondebosch
Cape Town
7701
Western Cape
ZA
Telephone: +27216504751
email: rene.navarro@uct.ac.za
homepage: http://www.fitzpatrick.uct.ac.za/fitz/staff/support/navarro
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2203-0481
Rene Navarro
metadata author
position: Information Systems Specialist
FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology
Rondebosch
Cape Town
7701
Western Cape
ZA
Telephone: +27-21-650-4751
email: rene.navarro@uct.ac.za
homepage: http://www.fitzpatrick.uct.ac.za/fitz/staff/support/navarro
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2203-0481
Colin Jackson
metadata author
position: Director
A Rocha Kenya
Plot 28, Beach Road
Watamu
KE
email: colin.jackson@arocha.org
Michael Brooks
user
email: michael.brooks@uct.ac.za
Peter Njoroge
administrative point of contact
position: Management team
Nairobi Museum
Nairobi
Nairobi
KE
Telephone: +254724521770
email: pnjoroge@museums.or.ke
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