Description
The BNHS museum houses a vast collection of specimens collected from across the Indian subcontinent over the past hundred years. The dataset provides the occurrence of amphibians and reptiles based on preserved specimens collected across 23 countries viz. India, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Thailand, Myanmar, Indonesia, Bangladesh, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Yemen, Turkey, Syria, South Africa, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Oman, Iraq, and Iran. The museum collection holds a total of 9766 amphibian and reptile specimens collected between 1880 to 2019. A total of 9486 occurrence records in the dataset are supported with detailed verbatim localities of which 2310 localities are supported with geo coordinates. Of the 9766 records, 4282 are of amphibian specimens collected from Bhutan, India, Iraq, Japan, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. Of the total amphibian specimens, 3880 belong to anurans (frogs and toads), 390 are caecilians, and 120 are salamanders. 5484 specimens belong to reptiles collected from all the 23 countries listed above. Of these, 1728 are lizards, 3606 snakes, 143 turtles and tortoises, and 7 crocodiles. The collection includes a number of species that are listed under the threatened category or data deficient while some are only known based on a few museum specimens. An updated occurrence record including verbatim and georeferenced locations and date of collection will help researchers in understanding the historical and current distribution of these species.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 9,766 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Pal S, Joshi P. (2022). Amphibian and reptile specimens at the Bombay Natural History Society Museum. Bombay Natural History Society. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/dk3zxh accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-05-31.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Bombay Natural History Society. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 6ca8d516-a599-41a6-af5c-004b5ab99383. Bombay Natural History Society publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Amphibian; Reptile
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Author ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Scientist C
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8267-4708
- Author
- Research Fellow
- Shahid Bhagat Singh Rd
- Point Of Contact
- Deputy Director
Geographic Coverage
The occurrence dataset is based on specimens collected from India, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Thailand, Myanmar, Indonesia, Bangladesh, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Yemen, Turkey, Syria, South Africa, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Oman, Iraq, and Iran.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1880-01-01 / 2019-12-31 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | Digitizing reptile and amphibian specimens at the Bombay Natural History Society |
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| Identifier | BIFA4_052 |
| Funding | BIFA |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Point Of Contact
Collection Data
| Collection Name | BNHS |
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| Specimen preservation methods | Alcohol |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 6ca8d516-a599-41a6-af5c-004b5ab99383 |
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| https://cloud.gbif.org/asia/resource?r=bnhs_herpetofauna |