Herpetological Collection at the Wildlife Institute of India Vertebrate Museum

Omkar Dhavale1, Karthikeyan Vasudevan1, Karthikeyan Vasudevan2, Omkar Dhavale2, Dinesh Pundir2, Vinod Thakur2

1 Wildlife Institue of India, Post Box # 18, Chandrabani, 248001, Dehradun; 2 Wildlife Institue of India, Post Box # 18, Chandrabani, 248001, Dehradun, India

Corresponding author(s): Omkar Dhavale (omkarsdhavale@gmail.com), Karthikeyan Vasudevan (karthik@wii.gov.in)

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Citation: Combination of authors, year of data paper publication (in parentheses), Title, Journal Name, Volume, Issue number (in parentheses), and doi of the data paper.

Resource Citation

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

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Herpetology, India, Western Ghats, Western Himalayas, reptiles, amphibians, Occurrence

General description

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.

Project details

Project title: Herpetological Collection at the Wildlife Institute of India
Personnel: Omkar Dhavale
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.

Data published through GBIF: https://ibif.gov.in:8443/ipt/resource?r=wii_herpetological

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: South Asia
Coordinates: 3°31'48''N and 64°38'27.6''N Latitude; 38°1'48''E and 100°1'48''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: February 1, 2011

Temporal coverage: February 1, 2011 - July 12, 2012

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Herpetological Collection at the Wildlife Institute of India Vertebrate Museum
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ibif.gov.in:8443/ipt/archive.do?r=wii_herpetological
Publication date of data: 2019-11-06
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2012-07-12
Hierarchy level: Dataset

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