Occurrence

Royal Ontario Museum - Herpetology Collection

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Description

Specimens and especially tissues is worldwide in scope. Collection strengths include Ambystomatidae, Hylidae, Megophryidae, Ranidae, Dicroglossidae, Iguanidae, Agamidae, Lacertidae, Colubridae, Viperidae, mainly from Canada, SW USA, NW Mexico, SE Asia, NE South America

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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 58,233 records.

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Lathrop A (2025). Royal Ontario Museum - Herpetology Collection. Version 2.1. Royal Ontario Museum. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.5886/acs7sw

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Royal Ontario Museum. 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: c287bcb5-ee4a-456f-86b6-dae0e6fe7958.  Royal Ontario Museum publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canada Biodiversity Information Facility.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

Amy Lathrop
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Originator ●
  • User ●
  • Point Of Contact
Collection Specialist
Royal Ontario Museum
100 Queen's Park
M5S 2C6 Toronto
Ontario
CA
1-416-586-5899
https://orcid.org/0009-0003-1760-0360

Geographic Coverage

Worldwide; mainly from Canada, SW USA, NW Mexico, China, Vietnam, Guyana, Australia, Caucasus

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Additional Metadata

Purpose As the country’s preeminent field research institute and an international leader in new discoveries, ROM plays a vital role in advancing our understanding of the artistic, cultural and natural world.
Alternative Identifiers 10.5886/acs7sw
c287bcb5-ee4a-456f-86b6-dae0e6fe7958
https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=rom-herpetology