KwaZulu-Natal Museum-Arachnida-Collection

Siyabonga Zamisa

doi:10.15468/kf9hfr

KwaZulu-Natal Museum-Arachnida-Collection

Citation

Zamisa S (2023). KwaZulu-Natal Museum-Arachnida-Collection. KwaZulu-Natal Museum. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/kf9hfr accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-15.

Description

The KwaZulu-Natal Museum has a long history of arachnology research, and significant collections were built up by previous researchers. Currently we have no active researchers using these collections within the museum, but they still form an important resource for the international research community.

Spiders (6000 specimens) and scorpions form the largest part of the arachnology collections (2500); but opilionids (1300), pseudoscorpions (500), ticks and mites (1400), and solifugids (600) are also well represented. Terrestrial isopods (200) and amphipods (1500) are curated along with the arachnids. Much of this material is from KwaZulu-Natal, and was collected by Dr R. F. Lawrence who was based at the Natal Museum for more than 20 years. The collection includes more than 1000 type specimens.

Taxonomic Coverages

Geographic Coverages

The Arachnida collection has predominantly an African geographic range but do have specimen records which are also found in Europe, North America and South America.

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Contacts

Siyabonga Zamisa
originator
position: Data Technician
KwaZulu-Natal Museum
237 Jabu Ndlovu Street
Pietermaritzburg
3201
KwaZulu-Natal
ZA
Telephone: +27333410524
email: szamisa@nmsa.org.za
userId: https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0002-1525-0980

Siyabonga Zamisa
metadata author
position: Data Technician
KwaZulu-Natal Museum
237 Jabu Ndlovu Street
Pietermaritzburg
3201
KwaZulu-Natal
ZA
Telephone: +27333410524
email: szamisa@nmsa.org.za
userId: https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0002-1525-0980

Siyabonga Zamisa
point of contact
position: Assistant Director
KwaZulu-Natal Museum
237 Jabu Ndlovu Street
Pietermaritzburg
3201
KwaZulu-Natal
ZA
Telephone: +27333410559
email: szamisa@nmsa.org.za
homepage: http://www.nmsa.org.za

Siyabonga Zamisa
administrative point of contact
position: Data Technician
KwaZulu-Natal Museum
237 Jabu Ndlovu Street
Pietermaritzburg
3201
KwaZulu-Natal
ZA
Telephone: +27333410524
email: szamisa@nmsa.org.za
userId: https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0002-1525-0980