UWIZM Phasmatodea

Renoir Auguste1, Mike Rutherford1

1 The University of the West Indies, Dept. of Life Sciences, St. Augustine, Trinidad And Tobago

Corresponding author(s): Renoir Auguste (UWIZoologyMuseum@sta.uwi.edu)

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Resource Citation

Rutherford MG and Auguste RJ (2018): UWIZM Phasmatodea. v1.2. The University of the West Indies Zoology Museum (UWIZM). Dataset/Occurrence. https://cloud.gbif.org/bid/resource?r=uwizmphasmotodea&amp;v=1.2

Abstract

This dataset contains some of the records from the Phasmatodea in the UWIZM collections.

Keywords: Occurrence, Phasmatodea, Trinidad and Tobago, Stick Insects, Specimen

Project details

Project title: Improving Biodiversity data accessibility in the Caribbean countries of Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados and Suriname
Personnel: Mike Rutherford, Renoir Auguste
Funding: This project is made possible through a grant from GBIF
Study area descriptions/descriptor: Trinidad and Tobago, St. Vincent, Colombia
Design description: The goal of this project is to make the records contained within the UWIZM accessible to all.

Data published through GBIF: https://cloud.gbif.org/bid/resource?r=uwizmphasmotodea

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Phasmatodea were identified to species level.
Taxonomic ranks
Family: Diapheromeridae, Phasmatidae, Prisopodidae, Pseudophasmatidae

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Trinidad and Tobago, St. Vincent, Colombia
Coordinates: 4°39'11.09''S and 15°14'30.44''N Latitude; 79°37'44.06''W and 59°32'45.23''W Longitude 

Temporal coverage: April 1, 1929 - November 11, 2015

Natural collections description

Collection name: UWIAM Phasmatodea
Specimen preservation method: Alcohol

Methods

Method step description: 1. Specimens in the collection were assessed for existing data (labels in jars, details in registers, etc,)
2. Identifications were confirmed or made using a variety of literature sources (scientific papers, books, online resources)
3. Specimens were photographed and properly stored then the data was uploaded to the UWIZM Past Perfect database.
Study extent description: Trinidad and Tobago, St. Vincent, Colombia
Sampling description: Specimens were mainly collected by hand, or were brought to the museum.
Quality control description: Specimen identifications were checked by at least two people.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive UWIZM Phasmatodea
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://cloud.gbif.org/bid/archive.do?r=uwizmphasmotodea
Publication date of data: 2018-09-21
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2018-08-08
Hierarchy level: Dataset