NHMD Mammalogy Collection ...

• Main Author: Johansson, Daniel Klingenberg
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Natural History Museum of Denmark 2024
• Subjects: Copenhagen; mammals; mammalogy; Denmark; zoology; Specimen; Occurrence; Arctic Fox; Beluga; Beluga*; Eurasian otter; Greenland; greenlandic; musk ox; narwhal*; Sperm whale; White-beaked dolphin; walrus*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.15468/54a94n; https://www.gbif.org/dataset/78b270c5-a5fe-4f1d-b87e-eb0dd7b7ae02

The mammal collection comprises approx 56,000 specimens, the oldest of which date back to 1649. Around 1,600 of the World’s 5,488 (estimated in April 2015) mammal species are represented. We have impressive series of most Danish and Greenlandic mammals, including terrestrial and marine carnivores (polar bear, Arctic fox, red fox, walrus, seals), rodents (red squirrels), mustelids (Eurasian otter, European badger, martin, polecat, marmot) bovids (musk ox), cervids (reindeer, red deer, roe deer) and bats. The geographic span of our material furthermore includes particularly rich collections from East Africa, Sudan, Southeast Asia, and Brazil (incl. the recent Lagoa Santa material collected by PW Lund in the mid-1880s). We have a large collection of whales from Greenland and Denmark, and large series of sperm whale, narwhal, beluga, harbor porpoise and white-beaked dolphin. Pattedyrsamlingen omfatter ca. 56.000 genstande, hvoraf den ældste dateres tilbage til 1649. Cirka 1.600 af verdens 5.488 (estimeret i ...