Illinois Natural History Survey - Mammal Collection (INHS-MAMMALS)

The Illinois Natural History Survey Mammal Collection contains 15,418 catalogued lots (skins and skulls combined) of 157 species from 25 families. These specimens are primarily used as comparative material to identify specimens brought to the Survey. Just over half (51%) of the specimens are from Illinois and many were collected between 1930 and 1950 in Illinois and surrounding states.

Contacts: Max Allen, maxallen@illinois.edu

Homepage: http://www.inhs.illinois.edu/collections/mammals

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal

Global Unique Identifier: 287d85a4-2679-4792-b772-53cc32d2d194

DwC-Archive Access Point: https://biocoll.inhs.illinois.edu/portal/content/dwca/INHS-MAMMALS_DwC-A.zip

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Cite this collection:

Illinois Natural History Survey - Mammal Collection. Occurrence dataset (ID: 287d85a4-2679-4792-b772-53cc32d2d194) https://biocoll.inhs.illinois.edu/portal/content/dwca/INHS-MAMMALS_DwC-A.zip accessed via the INHS Collections Data Portal, biocoll.inhs.illinois.edu/portal, 2023-05-30).

Collection Statistics

22,429 specimen records
474 (2%) georeferenced
17 families
107 genera
169 species

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