Description
This database contains information on the specimens that have been registered so far in the mammal collection of the Swedish Museum of Natural History. This dataset is based on extensive collections of mammals housed at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, having approximately 120,000 objects, mainly in the form of skeletons and skins, but also alcohol-preserved animals and tissue samples. Some of the specimens are mounted and displayed in museum exhibitions, the collection is, however, primarily used in research and for educational purposes.
The collections include 18th century, even late 17th century, specimens covering a little more than 40% of the world's known mammals. The data set, and the collections it reflects, has a focus on Swedish and European species as well as substantial representation of South American, African, and Southeast Asian faunas. The mammals that are part of the state-owned wildlife ("statens vilt") are particularly well represented.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence 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 44,043 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
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Kalthoff DC (2015). NRM-Mammals. Swedish Museum of Natural History. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/sb6fcq accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-17.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Swedish Museum of Natural History. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: f7b77040-0c64-11dd-84d1-b8a03c50a862. Swedish Museum of Natural History publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Sweden.
Keywords
Occurrence; Observation; Occurrence
Contacts
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- Point Of Contact
- Curator
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Geographic Coverage
Mammals from the whole world.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 10.15468/sb6fcq |
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| f7b77040-0c64-11dd-84d1-b8a03c50a862 | |
| 1041 | |
| https://www.gbif.se/ipt/resource?r=nrm-mammals |