UWIZM Scarabaeidae Beetles

Mike G. Rutherford1, Renoir J. Auguste1, Mike Rutherford2

1 The University of the West Indies, Dept. of Life Sciences, St. Augustine, Trinidad And Tobago; 2 The University of the West Indies, Dept. of Life Sciences, St. Augustine, Trinidad And Tobago

Corresponding author(s): Mike G. Rutherford (UWIZoologyMuseum@sta.uwi.edu)Renoir J. Auguste (UWIZoologyMuseum@sta.uwi.edu)

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Citation: Combination of authors, year of data paper publication (in parentheses), Title, Journal Name, Volume, Issue number (in parentheses), and doi of the data paper.

Resource Citation

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

Abstract

This dataset contains some of the records from the Beetle Family Scarabaeidae in the UWIZM collections.

Keywords: Occurrence, Scarabaeidae, Beetles, Trinidad and Tobago, Global, 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: Global.
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=uwizmscarabeetles

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Beetles were identified to species level.
Taxonomic ranks
Family: Scarabaeidae

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Specimens are from across the Caribbean, and on the continents of North America, South America, Africa, Europe and south east Asia.
Coordinates: 90°0'0''S and 90°0'0''N Latitude; 180°0'0''W and 180°0'0''W Longitude 

Temporal coverage: March 30, 1905 - September 21, 2013

Natural collections description

Collection name: UWIZM Scarabaeidae Beetles
Specimen preservation method: Mounted

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: Global.
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 Scarabaeidae Beetles
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://cloud.gbif.org/bid/archive.do?r=uwizmscarabeetles
Publication date of data: 2018-10-01
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2018-06-21
Hierarchy level: Dataset