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Specimen Record

ContinentAfrica
CountryTanzania
State/ProvinceMasailand
County/ParishKitete District
LocalityMasailand
Latitude-2.903414
Longitude36.049939
Institution CodeKu
Collection CodeKum
Catalog Number83572
Collected ByArthur C Popham, Jr.
Date Collected1957-08-22

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KUBI Mammalogy Collection
http://biodiversity.ku.edu/mammalogy/collections

The mammal collection at the University of Kansas Natural History Museum is one of the world's largest (the fifth largest mammal collection in North America and the third largest university collection in the world). The most common preparation type is a prepared skin, with the skull cleaned and stored in a separated container (our preparation code is SS). Second-most common is a skin with the entire skeleton cleaned and stored separately (SB). Some specimens consist only of a skull (SK) or cranium (CO). Other specimens may consist of a partial skeleton (PS), an entire skeleton (SN) or only a skin (SO). Many of our specimens are stored in alcohol (AL), or are in alcohol with the skull removed and cleaned (SA). Tissues associated with any of these preparation types are noted as a separate field in our database. Because there are active public education and exhibits programs in the KU Natural History Museum, a few of our specimens are taxidermy mounts (BM) and some are housed permanently on exhibit. Other preparation types are coded as “other” (OT). Occasionally, specimens are prepared with the baculum or os clitoris and separately stored in preserving fluid. Non-standard preparation types and additional materials are noted in a comments field in our database.

We have extensive historical collections from Central America, Mexico, and southeast, central, western regions of the United States and Alaska. We recently added outstanding collections from the Philippines and New Guinea. We anticipate continuing to maintain our strengths in these geographic regions, emphasizing bats, rodents and insectivores—current taxonomic strengths. Most of our collection consists of nicely prepared skins, skulls, and complete skeletons, with most recent specimens accompanied by tissues.

There are 135 type specimens in our collection at present. Of these, the largest number (97) are rodents. There are also 6 insectivore, 25 bat, 5 lagomorph, and 2 carnivore holotypes. Lists of the Mammalogy's type specimens have been published by Jones and Genoways (1969) and Jones et al. (1984), although several have been described since. Types have been described from Barbados, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico (14 states), Mozambique, Nicaragua, Philippines, Venezuela, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, and from 12 states in the U.S. All type specimens are kept in the designated "type case" at all times. Use of type specimens must be arranged with the curators.

There is broad taxonomic coverage, including important holdings of Central and South American marsupials, insectivores, bats, rodents; Holarctic shrews, microtines, squirrels and North American bats, insectivores, carnivores, rodents and lagomorphs.

Contacts

Name Andrew Bentley
RoleBioinformatics Manager
Emailabentley@ku.edu
Name Maria Eifler
RoleCollection Manager
Emailmeifler@ku.edu
Name Jocelyn Colella
RoleCurator
Emailcolella@ku.edu
Name Maria Eifler
RoleCollection Manager
Emailmeifler@ku.edu
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Taxonomy
Scientific NameGiraffa tippelskirchi
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassMammalia
OrderArtiodactyla
FamilyGiraffidae
GenusGiraffa
Specific Epithettippelskirchi
Specimen
Catalog Number83572
PreparationsSkeleton Partial
SexM
Institution CodeKU
Collection CodeKUM
Occurrence ID8ca96b87-1ed8-11e3-bfac-90b11c41863e
Dataset NameUniversity of Kansas Biodiversity Institute Mammalogy Collection
Basis of RecordPreservedSpecimen
Collection Event
Collected ByArthur C Popham, Jr.
Date Collected1957-08-22
Year1957
Month8
Day22
Locality
CountryTANZANIA
State / ProvinceMASAILAND
CountyKITETE DISTRICT
ContinentAfrica
LocalityMASAILAND
Decimal Latitude-2.903414
Decimal Longitude36.049939
Location RemarksMasailand in Arusha District?
Geodetic Datumunknown
Georeferenced ByN Slade
Georeferenced Date2008-08-22
Other
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