Royal Saskatchewan Museum - Herpetology Collection

Danae Frier1

1 Royal Saskatchewan Museum, 2340 Albert St, S4P 2V7, Regina, Canada

Corresponding author(s): Danae Frier (danae.frier@gov.sk.ca)

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Citation: Combination of authors, year of data paper publication (in parentheses), Title, Journal Name, Volume, Issue number (in parentheses), and doi of the data paper.

Resource Citation

Frier D (2024). Royal Saskatchewan Museum - Herpetology Collection. Version 1.4. Royal Saskatchewan Museum. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.5886/vu3jns https://doi.org/10.5886/vu3jns

Abstract

The Herpetology collection consists of 650 skeletons, wet specimens, and tissue samples of reptiles and amphibians.  77% of the specimens are from Saskatchewan, and include 20 of the 21 species known to occur in the province.

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen, Occurrence

Data published through GBIF: https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=rskm-herpetology

Taxonomic coverage

Taxonomic ranks
Class: Amphibia, Reptilia

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: This collection contains specimens primarily from Saskatchewan, Canada, with occasional representation from other parts of Canada or North America.
Coordinates: 8°24'25.2''N and 72°48'57.6''N Latitude; 136°24'21.6''W and 56°15'0''W Longitude 

Temporal coverage: 1905 - 2018

Natural collections description

Parent collection identifier: RSKM
Collection name: Royal Saskatchewan Museum
Collection identifier: RSKM

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Royal Saskatchewan Museum - Herpetology Collection
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/archive.do?r=rskm-herpetology
Publication date of data: 2024-01-25
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

External datasets

Dataset description
Object name: GBIF Data Portal
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: HTML
Distribution: https://www.gbif.org/dataset/289f7f33-8ac4-4779-9883-e713f2aa5250

Dataset description
Object name: Canadensys Explorer
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: HTML
Distribution: https://data.canadensys.net/explorer/occurrences/search?q=data_resource_uid:dr101#tab_mapView

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2020-05-28
Hierarchy level: Dataset