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Carnegie Museum Invertebrate Zoology Collection (CMNH-IZ)

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The arachnid collection of the Invertebrate Zoology collection contains more than 1500 specimens that are prepared, labelled, and ready for study. Invertebrate Zoology’s overarching collection’s primary strengths are Lepidoptera and Coleoptera but with strong collections in Diptera, Odonata, Heteroptera, Homoptera, Hymenoptera, and Siphonaptera. These collections augment studies by staff, but they are also used for research by hundreds of specialists worldwide where they constitute the basis for numerous scientific publications. These collections benefit present and future generations, and in their immensity comprise a public trust as a unique record of the natural world.

Curator: Ainsley Seago, seagoa@carnegiemnh.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 7a82bf87-e83d-4c29-8fb3-da6f1b4df6c3
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: CMNH
GBIF Dataset page: http://www.gbif.org/dataset/5788015d-be84-4fcd-8fc5-e77063b4479d
Cite this collection:
Carnegie Museum Invertebrate Zoology Collection. Occurrence dataset (ID: 7a82bf87-e83d-4c29-8fb3-da6f1b4df6c3) https://ecdysis.org/content/dwca/CMNH-IZ_DwC-A.zip accessed via the Ecdysis Portal, ecdysis.org, 2024-11-03).
Address:
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
4400 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA   15213
US
https://carnegiemnh.org/
Collection Statistics
  • 1,523 specimen records
  • 702 (46%) georeferenced
  • 14 (0.92%) with images (21 total images)
  • 901 (59%) identified to species
  • 60 families
  • 181 genera
  • 277 species
  • 277 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
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