MSB Mammal Collection (Arctos) ...

• Main Author: Cook, Joseph
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Museum of Southwestern Biology 2024
• Subjects: Occurrence; Specimen; Alaska; Beringia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.15468/oirgxw; https://www.gbif.org/dataset/b15d4952-7d20-46f1-8a3e-556a512b04c5

The Division of Mammals contains over 327,000 catalogued specimens and is among the 3 largest in the world. Specimens date back to the 1880's with the majority documenting the rapid environmental change that has occurred since the 1950's. The collections are taxonomically broad, representing 25 orders, 106 families, 543 genera, ~1,750 species. The majority from the Orders Rodentia (249,000), Chiroptera (27,000), Carnivora (20,000), Eulipotyphla (16,000) and Artiodactyla (7,800). The collections are world-wide in scope (78 countries and all 50 US states) with particularly strong holdings from Western North America (225,000 specimens), Beringia and high latitudes (39,000 from Alaska, Russia and Canada), Mongolia (6,500 specimens and parasites), and Latin America (10,200 specimens from Bolivia, 10,000 from Panama, 7,000 from Chile, and 5,400 from Argentina). The collection contains 89 holotypes or paratypes, 185 parasite symbiotypes and 22 virus symbiotypes. Important collections integrated into the MSB include ...