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Herpetological Collection at the Wildlife Institute of India Vertebrate Museum

Latest version published by Wildlife Institute of India on Nov 6, 2019 Wildlife Institute of India

This dataset contains the records and associated media (pictures) of 274 herpetological specimens belonging to the herpetological collection of the Wildlife Institute of India. This dataset represents specimens from two classes, four orders, 16 families, 24 genera, and more than 60 species.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 274 records. 1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

  • Occurrence (core)
    274
  • Image 
    274

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Downloads

Download the latest version of this resource data as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) or the resource metadata as EML or RTF:

Data as a DwC-A file download 274 records in English (12 KB) - Update frequency: unknown
Metadata as an EML file download in English (10 KB)
Metadata as an RTF file download in English (9 KB)

Versions

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Dhavale. O, K. Vasudevan, , D. Pundir, V.Thakur - 2012 - Herpetological Collection at the Wildlife Institute of India Vertebrate Museum

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Wildlife Institute of India. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 86cf5e96-9668-403d-81cc-59eeff861060.  Wildlife Institute of India publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF India.

Keywords

Herpetology; India; Western Ghats; Western Himalayas; reptiles; amphibians; Occurrence

Contacts

Who created the resource:

Omkar Dhavale
Wildlife Institue of India Post Box # 18, Chandrabani 248001 Dehradun Uttarakhand

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Omkar Dhavale
Wildlife Institue of India Post Box # 18, Chandrabani 248001 Dehradun Uttarakhand

Who filled in the metadata:

Karthikeyan Vasudevan
Wildlife Institue of India Post Box # 18, Chandrabani 248001 Dehradun Uttarakhand

Who else was associated with the resource:

Karthikeyan Vasudevan
Wildlife Institue of India Post Box # 18, Chandrabani 248001 Dehradun Uttarakhand IN
Omkar Dhavale
Wildlife Institue of India Post Box # 18, Chandrabani 248001 Dehradun Uttarakhand IN
Dinesh Pundir
Wildlife Institue of India Post Box # 18, Chandrabani 248001 Dehradun Uttarakhand IN
Vinod Thakur
Wildlife Institue of India Post Box # 18, Chandrabani 248001 Dehradun Uttarakhand IN
Distributor
Wildlife Institute of India
Wildlife Institute of India

Geographic Coverage

South Asia

Bounding Coordinates South West [3.53, 38.03], North East [64.641, 100.03]

Temporal Coverage

Start Date 2011-02-01
Start Date / End Date 2011-02-01 / 2012-07-12

Project Data

No Description available

Title Herpetological Collection at the Wildlife Institute of India
Design Description This dataset contains the records and associated media (pictures) of 274 herpetological specimens belonging to the herpetological collection of the Wildlife Institute of India. This dataset represents specimens from two classes, four orders, 16 families, 24 genera, and more than 60 species.

The personnel involved in the project:

Point Of Contact
Omkar Dhavale

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Ahmed. F, A. Das, S.K. Dutta (2009) - Amphibians and Reptiles of North East India - Aaranyak
  2. Boulenger, G. (1882). Catalogue of the Batrachia Gradientia s.Caudata and Batrachia Apoda in the collection of the British Museum. 2Nd ed., British Mus. London.
  3. Boulenger, G. (1890). Reptilia and Batrachia. Publisher – Taylor and Francis (Original Publisher).
  4. Boulenger, G. (1920). A Monograph of the South Asian, Papuan, Melanesian, and Australian Frogs of the Genus Rana – Records of the Indian Museum Vol XX. - Director Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta
  5. Dutta S.K, K. Manamendra-Arachchi, (1996) - The Amphibian Fauna of Sri Lanka - Wildlife Trust of Sri Lanka
  6. Smith. M.A (1935). The Fauna of British India - Reptilia and Amphibia Volume 2. Publisher – Taylor and Francis (Original Publisher), Today and Tomorrows Printers and Publishers (Indian reprints)
  7. Smith. M.A (1935). The Fauna of British India - Reptilia and Amphibia Volume 3. Publisher – Taylor and Francis (Original Publisher), Today and Tomorrows Printers and Publishers (Indian reprints)
  8. Vasudevan K. and S. Sondhi (2010) - Amphibians and Reptiles of Uttarakhand India - Wildlife Institute of India

Additional Metadata

Purpose This dataset contains the records and associated media (pictures) of 274 herpetological specimens belonging to the herpetological collection of the Wildlife Institute of India. This dataset represents specimens from two classes, four orders, 16 families, 24 genera, and more than 60 species.
Alternative Identifiers 86cf5e96-9668-403d-81cc-59eeff861060
https://ibif.gov.in:8443/ipt/resource?r=wii_herpetological