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Denver Museum of Nature & Science - Arachnology (DMNS-Arac)

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Worldwide in scope though with a focus on the American West, the Arachnology collection at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science comprises over 50,000 specimen lots and is growing every year. The holdings include primary types and paratypes. Holdings are particularly strong in Colorado species and in Solifugae, with 13 primary types and 65 paratypes. The Colorado Spider Survey, initiated at DMNS in 1999, has vastly expanded our knowledge of the Colorado spider fauna. The collection is housed in the Avenir Collections Center - an onsite state-of-the-art museum collections facility.

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GBIF Dataset page: http://www.gbif.org/dataset/d762b508-7a70-441b-94ad-48fd77593275
Cite this collection:
Denver Museum of Nature & Science - Arachnology. Occurrence dataset (ID: de06a5b7-ffe2-40c4-b376-bb9b779bbdc9) https://ecdysis.org/content/dwca/DMNS-Arac_DwC-A.zip accessed via the Ecdysis Portal, ecdysis.org, 2025-05-17).

Collection Statistics

  • 45,986 specimen records
  • 45,619 (99%) georeferenced
  • 3,338 (7%) with media (6,436 total media)
  • 43,954 (96%) identified to species
  • 119 families
  • 565 genera
  • 1,935 species
  • 1,940 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

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Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: de06a5b7-ffe2-40c4-b376-bb9b779bbdc9
Digital Metadata: EML File
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