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Collection Profile for:
Ohio State University Spider Collection (OSAL-spiders)

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Spiders (Araneae) mostly from Ohio, with significant additional material from Florida and the Great Smoky Mt. National Park. Specimens are in vials with ethyl alcohol.  Includes the historical collections from 1915-1945 of William Barrows, the Ohio Spider Survey 1994-2014, plus the Andrew Penniman collection.

Contacts:

GBIF Dataset page: http://www.gbif.org/dataset/157316bd-eec2-48d5-bb46-4d44210ccd11
Cite this collection:
Ohio State University Spider Collection. Occurrence dataset (ID: 4423cf92-2ccb-47ae-9c15-fc1034ecfd49) https://ecdysis.org/content/dwca/OSAL-spiders_DwC-A.zip accessed via the Ecdysis Portal, ecdysis.org, 2025-03-20).

Collection Statistics

  • 14,918 specimen records
  • 14,751 (99%) georeferenced
  • 10 (0.07%) with media (56 total media)
  • 13,992 (94%) identified to species
  • 62 families
  • 316 genera
  • 848 species
  • 850 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: 4423cf92-2ccb-47ae-9c15-fc1034ecfd49
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights:
Rights Holder: The Ohio State University
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