UTEP Vertebrates
Citation
Mayfield T (2017). UTEP Vertebrates. Version 10.2. University of Texas at El Paso Biodiversity Collections. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/bbj8ad accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-01-18.Description
The UTEP Biodiversity Collections originated as departmental teaching and research collections in the early 1960s. Between the mid-1960s and the early 1970s, the collections were formalized under the name Museum of Arid Land Biology (acronym MALB). In 1976, organizational changes instituted by the university resulted in the renaming of the collections and associated activities as the Laboratory for Environmental Biology (acronym UTEP, though locally called the "LEB"). In July of 1993, the Laboratory became associated with the University of Texas at El Paso's Centennial Museum through a memorandum of understanding.Some 160,000 curated specimens form the base for research by Centennial Museum personnel and faculty curators; by graduate and undergraduate students from the University of Texas at El Paso; and, through loans and visitation, graduate students and professionals from other institutions. The name was changed to UTEP Biodiversity Collections in August of 2012.
Collections primarily are of modern amphibians, reptiles, and birds as well as fossil vertebrates (amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals). The collections have a regional emphasis, but also contain material from outside the Southwest, particularly from Mexico. The research collections are maintained in the Biology Building. [EDIT] 2019/04/05 Dataset was split into the two following datasets: - https://www.gbif.org/dataset/beddb937-47b8-48f6-8efb-e347383aa9b5 - https://www.gbif.org/dataset/395dfaad-8b0d-47e2-a2ea-bf8a3fd5c10c
Additional info
http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.htmlTaxonomic Coverages
Geographic Coverages
The collections have a regional emphasis, but also contain material from outside the Southwest, particularly from Mexico.
Bibliographic Citations
Contacts
Teresa Mayfieldoriginator
position: Manager, UTEP Biodiversity Collections
University of Texas at El Paso
500 W. University Avenue, Biology B222
El Paso
79968-0533
TX
US
Telephone: +01 915-747-5479
email: tmayfield@utep.edu
homepage: https://www.utep.edu/leb/collect/collect.htm
Teresa Mayfield
metadata author
position: Manager, UTEP Biodiversity Collections
University of Texas at El Paso
500 W. University Avenue, Biology B222
El Paso
79968-0533
TX
US
Telephone: +01 915-747-5479
email: tmayfield@utep.edu
homepage: https://www.utep.edu/leb/collect/collect.htm
Laura Russell
programmer
position: VertNet Programmer
VertNet
email: larussell@vertnet.org
David Bloom
programmer
position: VertNet Coordinator
VertNet
email: dbloom@vertnet.org
John Wieczorek
programmer
position: Information Architect
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at Berkeley
email: tuco@berkeley.edu
Arthur Harris
point of contact
position: Curator of the Paleobiology collection
University of Texas at El Paso
500 W. University Avenue
El Paso
79968-0519
TX
US
Telephone: 915-747-6895
email: aharris@utep.edu
homepage: http://www.utep.edu/leb/default.htm
Carl Lieb
point of contact
position: Co-Curator of the Herpetology Collection
University of Texas at El Paso
500 West University Avenue, Biology Bldg. #209
El Paso
79968-0519
TX
US
email: clieb@utep.edu
homepage: http://www.utep.edu/leb/default.htm
Philip Lavretsky
point of contact
position: Curator of Ornithology
University of Texas at El Paso
500 West University Avenue, Biology Bldg. #222
El Paso
79968-0519
TX
US
email: plavretsky@utep.edu
homepage: http://www.utep.edu/leb/default.htm
Teresa Mayfield
administrative point of contact
position: Manager, UTEP Biodiversity Collections
University of Texas at El Paso
500 W. University Avenue, Biology B222
El Paso
79968-0533
TX
US
Telephone: +01 915-747-5479
email: tmayfield@utep.edu
homepage: https://www.utep.edu/leb/collect/collect.htm