deb38f6b-09e9-4ee2-8d0b-056bb6a1c6db https://cloud.gbif.org/asia/resource?r=signify Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum SIGNIFY National University of Singapore signify@nus.edu.sg World Museum, Liverpool Board of Trustees of National Museums © National Museums Liverpool

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https://www.naturalis.nl/en contentProvider 2026-01-14 eng For over two centuries, naturalists have collected zoological specimens from Singapore and its surrounding waters, leading to extensive collections of its biodiversity housed in natural history museums worldwide. The SIGNIFY (Singapore in Global Natural History Museums Information Facility) project, an initiative of the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum (LKCNHM) at the National University of Singapore, endeavours to trace the footsteps of these specimens held in custodian institutions. Launched on 10 August 2022, the project aims to collate, document, digitise and make publicly available online scientifically and historically significant zoological specimens collected from Singapore since its founding in 1819. SIGNIFY is the first international endeavour at this scale to make the historical biodiversity data of an entire country freely available online. Working with counterparts from custodian institutions, the digital archive serves to bridge data gaps in the understanding of Singapore’s historical biodiversity. Occurrence GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type_2015-07-10.xml This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License. Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-NC-4.0.html CC-BY-NC-4.0 https://signifynaturalhistory.sg/ https://cloud.gbif.org/asia/archive.do?r=signify Singapore -180 180 90 -90 1817-06-30 2012-03-17 phylum Arthropoda order Testudines order Scleractinia order Squamata order Decapoda order Hemiptera order Percopsiformes order Passeriformes order Pelecaniformes phylum Annelida class Polychaeta order Scleralcyonacea order Tetraodontiformes class Arachnida order Primates phylum Chordata order Gruiformes class Aves order Sirenia class Reptilia class Bivalvia order Blattodea order Xiphosura class Mammalia class Pycnogonida order Sabellida class Anthozoa class Merostomata order Araneae class Gastropoda order Lepidoptera phylum Mollusca class Demospongiae order Gobiiformes order Diptera order Suberitida order Trochida order Trogoniformes order Neogastropoda order Cycloneritida phylum Porifera order Clathrinida order Stomatopoda phylum Chordata order Batrachoidiformes order Syngnathiformes order Cephalaspidea order Beloniformes order Pantopoda order Blenniiformes order Scorpaeniformes order Phasmatodea order Perciformes order Venerida order Leucosolenida order Malacalcyonacea order Mantodea order Falconiformes order Poecilosclerida class Actinopterygii order Centriscidae order Siluriformes order Coleoptera order Odonata order Columbiformes class Insecta order Charadriiformes order Bucerotiformes order Ovalentaria incertae sedis order Hymenoptera class Calcarea order Psittaciformes order Caprimulgiformes order Sacoglossa order Strigiformes order Piciformes order Coraciiformes order Clupeiformes class Malacostraca phylum Cnidaria order Malacalcyonacea order Archaeogastropoda All specimens images and copyright follows that of the holding institution.SIGNIFY, Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum & Respective holding institution | World Museum, Liverpool (LIVCM): Board of Trustees of National Museums; © National Museums Liverpool | Naturalis Biodiversity Center (RMNH): Stichting Naturalis Biodiversity Center continually Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum SIGNIFY National University of Singapore signify@nus.edu.sg https://signifynaturalhistory.sg/ Data-mining: This includes the extraction of specimen information from published literature and referring to online museum databases Digitisation: This step requires the team to take high quality research-ready images of the specimens, with different views to capture important characteristics of the specimen Image post-processing: This involves the cleaning of images through Adobe Photoshop, and plating the different views of each specimen onto a single figure plate This includes important type specimens, and historical specimens that were collected before the early 1900s and by prominent collectors. SIGNIFY digitises and documents scientifically and historically-important specimens from Singapore SIGNIFY Team author Singapore in Global Natural History Museums Information Facility The project receives generous support from Mr Terence Anthony McNeice (in honour of Sir Percy McNeice), the Lee Foundation and Mr Goh Geok Khim. Singapore 2025-09-08T09:01:10.581+00:00 dataset SIGNIFY, Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum & Respective holding institution | World Museum, Liverpool (LIVCM): Board of Trustees of National Museums; © National Museums Liverpool | Naturalis Biodiversity Center (RMNH): Stichting Naturalis Biodiversity Center https://cloud.gbif.org/asia/logo.do?r=signify Animalia alcohol dried formalin mounted pinned microscopicPreparation deb38f6b-09e9-4ee2-8d0b-056bb6a1c6db/v1.14.xml