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Mammalogy Collection - Royal Ontario Museum

Citation

Millen B, Lim B (2018). Mammalogy Collection - Royal Ontario Museum. Version 11.5. Royal Ontario Museum. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/2rlrvh accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-05-17.

Description

The Mammal collection consists of 120,000 skins, skeletons, wet specimens and is strong in Chiroptera and New World Rodents. The geographic strengths are Ontario (pre-1985), Guyana, Suriname, Colombia, southeastern Asia, Kenya, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Approximately 24,000 of the more recent voucher specimens have associated frozen tissues.

Taxonomic Coverages

Geographic Coverages

Specimens represent all continents and oceans.

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Bradley Millen
originator
position: Database Technician
Royal Ontario Museum
100 Queen's Park
Toronto
M5S 2C6
Ontario
CA
Telephone: 1-416-586-5768
email: bradm@rom.on.ca
Burton Lim
metadata author
position: Associate Curator
Royal Ontario Museum
100 Queen's Park
Toronto
M5S 2C6
Ontario
CA
Telephone: 1-416-586-5771
email: burtonl@rom.on.ca
homepage: http://www.rom.on.ca/en/collections-research/rom-staff/burton-lim
Judith Eger
user
position: Curator - retired
Royal Ontario Museum
100 Queen's Park
Toronto
M5S 2C6
Ontario
CA
Telephone: 1-416-586-5894
email: judithe@rom.on.ca
homepage: http://www.rom.on.ca/en/collections-research/rom-staff/judith-eger
Susan Woodward
user
position: Assistant Curator - Retired
Royal Ontario Museum
100 Queen's Park
Toronto
M5S 2C6
Ontario
CA
Telephone: 1-416-586-5768
email: susanw@rom.on.ca
homepage: http://www.rom.on.ca/en/collections-research/rom-staff/susan-woodward
Burton Lim
administrative point of contact
position: Associate Curator
Royal Ontario Museum
100 Queen's Park
Toronto
M5S 2C6
Ontario
CA
Telephone: 1-416-586-5771
email: burtonl@rom.on.ca
homepage: http://www.rom.on.ca/en/collections-research/rom-staff/burton-lim
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