Description
Collections from Tanzania and the Eastern Arc Mts in particular, in the Zoological Museum, Natural History Museum of Denmark. The Zoological Museum of the Natural History Museum has a long tradition for field work in Tanzania, and in particular in the forests of the Eastern Arc Mountains. In addition to these recent collecting efforts, the museum houses bird material collected 1947-67 in all parts of the country by the Danish plantation owner Thorkild Andersen. Today, our bird collections from Tanzania are among the largest in the world. We should like to see our collections and the associated data being increasingly utilized for scientific research, conservation and education, and to fulfill this goal we are here making part of the data available online. 9605 records, covering 18 Orders; 64 Families; 283 Genera; 621 Species. 1503 records with image links.
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 9,605 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.
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.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Aves Tanzanian collection at the Natural History Museum of Denmark (SNM)
Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Test Organization #1. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
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Keywords
Occurrence; Occurrence
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Geographic Coverage
Specimens collected from Tanzania.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-11.73, 28.67], North East [-0.5, 40.41] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
taxonomic authority: The Clements Checklist of Birds, Sixth Edition
| Class | Aves |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1810-03-05 / 2012-12-31 |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | ZMUC:6631f2a3-596c-446c-8949-a87d17956cdd |
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| ca971da8-3b6d-4285-8fd7-c3f4ac01924d | |
| https://ipt3.gbif-uat.org/resource?r=aves-tanzanian |