Royal Ontario Museum - Mammalogy

Occurrence
Latest version published by Royal Ontario Museum on Apr 1, 2025 Royal Ontario Museum
Publication date:
April 1, 2025
Published by:
Royal Ontario Museum
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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Description

Taxonomically comprehensive and worldwide in scope, with particular strengths in mammals of Ontario, Central America, South America, Africa and southeast Asia. Within most of these areas, collections of chiroptera and rodentia are significant. Frozen tissues are also substantial for tropical small mammals.

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 124,208 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

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Lim B (2025). Royal Ontario Museum - Mammalogy. Version 2.0. Royal Ontario Museum. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.5886/gdcfc8

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

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: bb109a7a-6c5a-4cad-a1b9-b750016e9d82.  Royal Ontario Museum publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canada Biodiversity Information Facility.

Keywords

Occurrence

Contacts

Burton Lim
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • Assistant Curator
Royal Ontario Museum
CA
Marion Leménager
  • User
  • Data Manager
Canadensys
CA

Geographic Coverage

Global.

Bounding Coordinates South West [-88.652, -179], North East [85.75, 178.4]

Taxonomic Coverage

N/A

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammalia
Order Carnivora, Artiodactyla, Afrosoricida, Rodentia, Chiroptera, Eulipotyphla, Primates
Family Pteropodidae, Talpidae, Spalacidae, Procyonidae, Sciuridae, Chinchillidae, Felidae, Phocidae, Chrysochloridae, Lorisidae, Echimyidae, Soricidae, Otariidae, Callitrichidae, Cervidae, Muridae, Mustelidae, Indriidae, Cercopithecidae, Hystricidae, Cricetidae, Vespertilionidae

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1658-03-01 / 2020-04-15

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 10.5886/gdcfc8
https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=romm-specimens