Over 5 million bird specimens are housed in North American collections, documenting the composition, distribution, ecology, and systematics of the world's estimated 10,000-16,000 bird species. Millions of additional observational records are held in diverse data sets. ORNIS addresses the urgent call for increased access to these data in an open and collaborative manner, and involves development of a suite of online software tools for data analysis and error-checking. This project, funded by the National Science Foundation, expands on existing infrastructure developed for distributed mammal (MaNIS), amphibian and reptile (HerpNet), and fish (FishNet) databases. ... [Information of the supplier]
HerpNET is a collaborative effort by natural history museums to establish a global network of herpetological collections data, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF No. 0132303) and a GBIF DIGIT grant. The mission of HerpNET is to bring the accumulated knowledge from more than four million specimens in world-wide museum collections into currency for science and society by creating a distributed database with access from various portals. HerpNET will connect large repositories of information with smaller collections that have regional specializations. ... [Information of the supplier]
Das Museum für Tierkunde Dresden ist eines der bedeutenden deutschen zoologischen Forschungsmuseen, es verfügt über das derzeit modernste Wirbeltier-Präparatorium Europas. Seine Sammlungen umfassen mehr als 6 Millionen Tierpräparate, wovon auf die Wirbeltiere allein über 231.000 Objekte entfallen. Neben bedeutenden Spezialsammlungen aus weltweit verteilten Gebieten sind besonders die reichen Bestände an ausgerotteten Wirbeltierarten hervorzuheben. Das Museum für Tierkunde beschäftigt 10 Wissenschaftler und gibt 5 international beachtete zoologische Zeitschriftenreihen heraus ("Zoologische Abhandlungen", "Entomologische Abhandlungen", "Reichenbachia", "Malakologische Abhandlungen", "Faunistische Abhandlungen"). Das Museum gliedert sich in drei große Bereiche: 1. Vertebrata (Wirbeltiere), 2. Entomologie (Insektenkunde) und 3. Evertebrata varia (Wirbellose Tiere mit Ausnahme der Insekten). Die Forschungsschwerpunkte des Museums liegen auf der Erschließung der Biodiversität. Hierzu dienen die umfangreichen Tiersammlungen, die Vergleiche verschiedener Arten anhand morphologischer Merkmale erlauben. In jüngerer Zeit werden traditionelle zoologische Methoden, die statistische Unterschiede zwischen verschiedenen Arten herausarbeiten, zunehmend durch molekularbiologische und genetische Methoden ergänzt. Auch am Museum für Tierkunde kommen solche Verfahren zum Einsatz. Diese Grundlagenforschung ist die Basis für viele weitere, oft auch direkt anwendungsbezogene Disziplinen, wie Ökologie, Arten- oder Naturschutz. ... [Information des Anbieters, verändert]
ZEFOD is an information system concerned with botanical and zoological collections in Germany. Besides an overview of the institutions holding collections, ZEFOD also contains general information about each of the collections as well as information about the institution (address, contact data) and general information about the collection (name, description, geographic and taxonomic points of emphasis, scientific advisor). ... [Information of the supplier, translated and modified]
Our Museum forms a unit together with the Zoological Institute of Greifswald University. Our collections are fundamental to scientific research (research collection) and students´ teaching (demonstration collection). Moreover, part of the demonstration collection is open to the public (exhibition). [Information of the supplier]
The Essig Museum of Entomology is a part of a consortium of museums on the UC Berkeley campus, the Berkeley Natural History Museums. Since 1880 some famous entomologists (e.g. E.O. Essig, P.D. Hurd, J.A. Powell) built up Essig Museum and the collections of insects for teaching and research. In addition to California material, the museum houses a large collection of specimens from the northern Neotropics. Extensive fieldwork in Mexico by museum faculty and staff has enabled the assembly of a large, extremely important collection of specimens from that country. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
Die entomologischen Sammlungen sind Teil der zoologischen Sammlungen der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. Diese sind das Zentrum der Biodiversitätsforschung in Sachsen-Anhalt, sie dienen der Pflege und Sicherung der Sammlungen, der Bereitstellung von Sammlungsdaten und -material für Spezialisten des In- und Auslandes und der Bearbeitung spezieller Taxa. ... [Information des Anbieters, verändert]
As part of the Papua Insects Foundation, the aim of this website is to provide organisations, scientist, students, museums and everyone interested, with actual information on the taxonomics and faunistics of the insect fauna of Papua. This includes checklists with the latest nomenclatorial views, pictures of the species, distribution maps (compiled from information as far as known from literature and collections) and a list with relevant literature. If available we will also give information and photographs of the types. Very important is to distinguish so called biodiversity hotspots, places or areas where the entomological fauna is of a very high richness and is therefore of great importance to nature conservation. The contributors of this website themselves are scientists or are in contact with specialists all over the world. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
The Zoological Institute is one of the oldest scientific institutions in St. Petersburg. In 2007 the institute became 175 years old although history of establishment of collections at the institute and the museum began much earlier, i.e. since the time of Peter the Great, who purchased exhibits for the Kunstkammer, the first Russian museum established by him in 1714. The first museum catalogue (1742) lists approximately 4000 representatives of mammals, birds, amphibians, fishes, insects and invertebrates, deposited in scientific collections of the Kunstkammer. The 18th century was the age of great expeditions including the famous academic expeditions of P.S. Pallas in the southern regions of Russia and Siberia. Extensive material collected during numerous marine and land expeditions of the early 19th century filled depository of the Kunstkammer. The official opening of the Zoological Museum took place in July 1832, which is accepted as the time of its foundation. Later the museum was transformed into the Zoological Museum of the Academy of Sciences. Its scientific collections comprise approximately 60,000,000 items. The Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a leading research institution is one of the most significant zoological institutions in the world. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
The Section of Invertebrate Zoology of Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh USA (CMNH) maintains resources for understanding the greatest radiation of life on earth, invertebrates. These resources include world class specimen collections and an extensive library. The insect collection contains an estimated 13 million specimens of which approximately 7.4 million are prepared, labeled and ready for study. The primary taxonomic strength is Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) and Coleoptera (beetles), but with strong collections in Diptera (flies), Siphonaptera (fleas), Odonata (dragonflies), Heteroptera (true bugs), Homoptera (aphids, cicadas, and leafhoppers), and Hymenoptera (sawflies and wasps). Geographic representation is worldwide, but with the most extensive coverage in North America, South America, the Caribbean region, and tropical Africa. The number of primary types exceeds 7,500 and most of those are Lepidoptera and Coleoptera. Two databases allows to search after specimen in the insect and crayfish collection of CMNH. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
