CAS Herpetology (HERP)

Occurrence
Latest version published by California Academy of Sciences on Mar 11, 2024 California Academy of Sciences

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Description

The electronic catalog of the herpetology collection at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.

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 320,148 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)
320148
Multimedia 
266369

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.

Versions

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

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is California Academy of Sciences. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: cece4fc2-1fec-4bb5-a335-7252548e3f0b.  California Academy of Sciences publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by U.S. Geological Survey.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence

Contacts

Lauren Scheinberg
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Collections Manager, Herpetology
California Academy of Sciences
55 Music Concourse Dr.
94118 San Francisco
CA
US
+1 (415) 379-5823
Jon Fong
  • Metadata Provider
Programmer
California Academy of Sciences
55 Music Concourse Dr.
94118 San Francisco
CA
US
+1 (415) 379-5280

Geographic Coverage

Global coverage

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers cece4fc2-1fec-4bb5-a335-7252548e3f0b
http://ipt.calacademy.org:8080/resource?r=herp