Invertebrates of the river Tana Basin in Kenya available at the National Museums of Kenya's Natural History Collections, Invertebrates Zoology Section

Laban Njoroge; Violet Magoma; Esther Wangui Mwangi; Dorothy Atieno; Douglas Gathitu

doi:10.15468/ua4j3l

Invertebrates of the river Tana Basin in Kenya available at the National Museums of Kenya's Natural History Collections, Invertebrates Zoology Section

Citation

Njoroge L, Magoma V, Mwangi E W, Atieno D, Gathitu D (2020). Invertebrates of the river Tana Basin in Kenya available at the National Museums of Kenya's Natural History Collections, Invertebrates Zoology Section. Version 1.3. National Museums of Kenya. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/ua4j3l accessed via GBIF.org on 2021-04-22.

Description

The occurrence data of invertebrates of the river Tana basin in Kenya comprising of historical records at the natural history collection of the National museums of Kenya. The data includes both aquatic and terrestrial records. The taxonomic information may not be up-to-date as some of the families presented were not checked by experts prior to digitization and publishing. Data was mined from the specimen labels into excel spreadsheets.

Taxonomic Coverages

A collection of Anthropoda

Anthropoda
common name: Beetles rank: order

Geographic Coverages

The General spatial coverage is Africa

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Laban Njoroge
originator
position: Research Scientist
National Museums of Kenya
Box 40658
Nairobi
00100
Nairobi
KE
email: lnjoroge@museums.or.ke
homepage: http://www.museums.or.ke

Violet Magoma
originator
National Museums of Kenya
Box 40658
Nairobi
00100
Nairobi
homepage: http://www.museums.or.ke

Esther Wangui Mwangi
originator
position: Research Scientist
National Museums of Kenya
Box 40658
Nairobi
00100
Nairobi
KE
email: ewmwangi@museums.or.ke
homepage: http://www.museums.or.ke

Dorothy Atieno
originator
position: Research Intern
National Museums of Kenya
Box 40658
Nairobi
00100
Nairobi
KE

Douglas Gathitu
originator
position: Research Intern
National Museums of Kenya
Box 40658
Nairobi
00100
Nairobi
KE
homepage: http://www.museums.or.ke

Laban Njoroge
metadata author
position: Research Scientist
National Museums of Kenya
Box 40658
Nairobi
00100
Nairobi
KE
email: lnjoroge@museums.or.ke
homepage: http://www.museums.or.ke

Lawrence Monda
publisher
position: ICT Manager
National Museums of Kenya
Box 40658
Nairobi
00100
Nairobi
KE
email: lmonda@museums.or.ke
homepage: http://www.museums.or.ke

Laban Njoroge
administrative point of contact
position: Research Scientist
National Museums of Kenya
Box 40658
Nairobi
00100
Nairobi
KE
email: lnjoroge@museums.or.ke
homepage: http://www.museums.or.ke