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Specimen Record

ContinentOceania
CountryPapua New Guinea
State/ProvinceNorth Solomons Province
LocalityTogarau Two Village, North Solomons, Central Bougainville, Se Scope Of Mt. Balbi
Latitude-5.9603833
Longitude155.0792833
Institution CodeLsumz
Collection CodeHerps
Catalog Number93576
Collected ByAustin, Christopher
Date Collected2005-11-18

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LSUMZ Herps Collection
http://sites01.lsu.edu/wp/mns/research-collections/herpetology/

The collection of reptiles and amphibians is comprised of more than 140,000 specimens. The collection is extremely rich in snake species, with 359 genera and 954 species represented. The remaining herp groups are represented as follows: lizards (165 genera, 776 species), tuataras (1 genus, 1 species), turtles (54 genera, 104 species), crocodilians (8 genera, 15 species), frogs (143 genera, 682 species), salamanders (38 genera, 151 species), and caecilians (12 genera, 19 species). The collection contains 52 holotypes (specimens representing species new to science), which is a disproportionately large number for a collection of this size. The herpetology collection is worldwide in scope. The snake skeletal collection is among the largest and most diverse in the world. The collection of amphibians and reptiles from the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí is the largest in the world, and the collections from Honduras and Peru are among the top five in the world. Approximately 55-60 percent of the currently recognized genera of snakes are represented in the collection.

Contacts

Name Seth Parker
RoleHerpetology Collections Manager
Emailsethparker@lsu.edu
Name Seth Parker
RoleHerpetology Collections Manager
Emailsethparker@lsu.edu
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Taxonomy
Scientific NameCandoia carinata
Higher ClassficationAnimalia | Chordata | Reptilia | Squamata | Boidae | Candoia
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassReptilia
OrderSquamata
FamilyBoidae
GenusCandoia
Specific Epithetcarinata
Taxon Rankspecies
Nomenclatural CodeICZN
Specimen
Catalog Number93576
Other Catalog Numbers0
PreparationsTissue - 100; Ethanol - 1
Life StageAdult/juvenile
Sexunknown
Institution CodeLSUMZ
Collection CodeHerps
Occurrence IDfe2286be-fdee-11e2-ab74-7d6dab1460a4
Basis of RecordPreservedSpecimen
Type of ResourcePhysicalObject
Collection Event
Collected ByAustin, Christopher
Field NumberCCA 2602
Date Collected2005-11-18
Year2005
Month11
Day18
Start Day of Year322
End Day of Year322
Locality
CountryPapua New Guinea
Country CodePG
State / ProvinceNorth Solomons Province
Higher GeographyOceania | Papua New Guinea | North Solomons Province | | | | |
ContinentOceania
LocalityTogarau Two Village, North Solomons, Central Bougainville, SE Scope of Mt. Balbi
Verbatim LocalityOceania | Papua New Guinea | North Solomons Province
Decimal Latitude-5.9603833
Decimal Longitude155.0792833
Geodetic Datumnot recorded (forced WGS84)
Other
Languageen
Modified2017-01-17
IDfe2286be-fdee-11e2-ab74-7d6dab1460a4
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dcterms:accessRightshttp://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html
dwc:establishmentMeansnative
dwc:occurrenceStatuspresent
dwc:georeferenceVerificationStatusrequires verification
dcterms:licensehttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
dwc:institutionIDhttp://grbio.org/cool/ew6z-dwdm
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