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Specimen Record

ContinentAfrica
CountryKenya
State/ProvinceUcase
County/ParishWacomba Country
Institution CodeAmnh
Collection CodeMammals
Catalog NumberM-113974
Collected ByG. D. Christensen
Date Collected1936-06-13

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AMNH Mammal Collections
http://www.amnh.org/our-research/vertebrate-zoology/mammalogy

Founded in 1869, the AMNH mammal collections are among the oldest in the museum. Today, the Department of Mammalogy houses over 275,000 specimens, making it the third largest collection of recent mammals in the world. The scientific mission of the Department of Mammalogy is to describe the diversity of living and recently extinct mammals and to explore the mechanisms responsible for their evolution and extinction. In fulfillment of this objective, the department collects, archives and studies specimens of recent mammals and the data associated with those specimens. We aim always to provide the highest standards of curatorial care and to promote access to the collections by other scholars. The collections are visited by an average of 130 researchers every year, and the Department loans over 500 specimens a year to researchers around the globe. The Recent Mammals Collection, together with the remarkable collection of books, journals, and manuscripts of the Department Library and Archives provides scholars with outstanding resources for research in mammalian systematics, biodiversity and evolutionary biology.

Contacts

Name Tom Trombone
RoleData Manager
Emailtrombone@amnh.org
Name Tom Trombone
RoleData Manager
Emailtrombone@amnh.org
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Taxonomy
Scientific NameHeterocephalus glaber glaber
Higher ClassficationAnimalia;Chordata;Mammalia;Rodentia;Bathyergidae;Heterocephalus
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassMammalia
OrderRodentia
FamilyBathyergidae
GenusHeterocephalus
Specific Epithetglaber
Infraspecific Epithetglaber
Taxon Ranksubspecies
Nomenclatural CodeICZN
Specimen
Catalog NumberM-113974
PreparationsNot Mounted
Individual Count1
Sexmale
Institution CodeAMNH
Collection CodeMammals
Occurrence IDurn:catalog:AMNH:Mammals:M-113974
Basis of RecordPreservedSpecimen
Type of ResourcePhysicalObject
Collection Event
Collected ByG. D. Christensen
Collector NumberD. 272
Date Collected1936-06-13
Verbatim Date Collected1936-06-13
Year1936
Month6
Day13
Start Day of Year165
End Day of Year165
Locality
CountryKenya
State / ProvinceUcase
CountyWacomba Country
Higher GeographyAfrica;Kenya;Ucase;Wacomba Country;;;;
ContinentAfrica
Verbatim LocalityAfrica; Kenya; Ucase; Wacomba Country; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Maximum Elevation in Meters533
Minimum Elevation in Meters533
Verbatim Elevation1750 ft
Other
Languageen
Modified2013-08-07
IDurn:catalog:AMNH:Mammals:M-113974
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dwc:establishmentMeansnative
dwc:occurrenceStatuspresent
dcterms:accessRightshttp://www.vertnet.org/resources/norms.html
dcterms:licensehttp://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0
dwc:institutionIDurn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34925
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