List of reptiles in the collection of BNHS

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Latest version published by Bombay Natural History Society on Jun 1, 2022 Bombay Natural History Society
Publication date:
1 June 2022
License:
CC-BY-NC 4.0

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Description

The BNHS museum houses a vast collection of specimens collected from across the Indian subcontinent over the past hundred years. The dataset provides a checklist of reptiles based on preserved specimens collected from across India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Iran. The museum collection holds a total of 565 reptile species of which 246 are lizards, 289 are snakes, 28 turtles and tortoises, and 2 species of 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 few museum specimens. Given the recent trend of new species discovers across India this number is expected to increase in the near future. An updated checklist of species in a museum collection will help researchers from across the world to study these poorly known species in detail.

Data Records

The data in this checklist 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 565 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

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Pal S (2022): List of reptiles in the collection of BNHS. v1.2. Bombay Natural History Society. Dataset/Checklist. https://cloud.gbif.org/asia/resource?r=reptile_checklist_bnhs&v=1.2

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: 49f4d47e-e66a-4caa-aa0f-52796d2a6025.  Bombay Natural History Society publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.

Keywords

Checklist; reptiles; snakes; lizards; India

Contacts

Saunak Pal
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Author ●
  • Originator
  • Scientist
BNHS
  • Hornbill house
400001 Mumbai
Maharashtra
IN
Rahul Khot
  • Point Of Contact
  • Curator
BNHS
  • Hornbill house
400001 Mumbai
Maharashtra
IN

Geographic Coverage

The checklist is based on specimens from across India, parts of Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Iran.

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Project Data

No Description available

Title Addressing the taxonomic and geographical shortfall for amphibians and reptiles using specimen data from the collection of Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India, Bombay Natural History Society, India
Identifier BIFA4_052
Funding BIFA4_052

The personnel involved in the project:

Saunak Pal
  • Author
Prathamesh Joshi
  • Author

Collection Data

Collection Name Reptile specimens at the museum of Bombay Natural History Society
Specimen preservation methods Alcohol

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 49f4d47e-e66a-4caa-aa0f-52796d2a6025
https://cloud.gbif.org/asia/resource?r=reptile_checklist_bnhs