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The University of the West Indies Zoology Museum (UWIZM)

GBIF publisher since
16 October 2017

Description

The University of the West Indies Zoology Museum (UWIZM) is the de facto national zoology collection of Trinidad & Tobago. It is run by the Department of Life Sciences at the UWI campus in St. Augustine. The UWIZM mission is "To collect, preserve, document and display the fauna of Trinidad & Tobago". The collection contains over 65,000 invertebrates and 5,000 vertebrates and covers all the major groups of animals found in and around Trinidad & Tobago.

Contacts

TECHNICAL_POINT_OF_CONTACT
Jennalee Ramnarine
Telephone: 1 (868) 662-2002 Ext. 82237
email: Jennalee.Ramnarine@sta.uwi.edu
POINT_OF_CONTACT
Mike Rutherford
Telephone: 1 (868) 662-2002 Ext. 82231
email: mike.rutherford@sta.uwi.edu
The University of the West Indies Zoology Museum (UWIZM)
UWI Campus
St. Augustine
Trinidad
TT
email: UWIZoologyMuseum@sta.uwi.edu
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