Occurrence

Ditsong National Museum of Natural History Collection: 1805-2008

Version 1.3 published by South African National Biodiversity Institute on 22 November 2017 South African National Biodiversity Institute
Ditsong National Museum of Natural History Collection containing Herpetology, Mammals, and Ornithology records from 1805 till 2008.
Publication date:
22 November 2017
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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 162,150 records.

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.

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Versions

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

How to cite

Please be aware, this is an old version of the dataset.  Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Manamela K (2016): Ditsong National Museum of Natural History Collection: 1805-2008. v1.3. South African National Biodiversity Institute. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanbi/resource?r=ditsong&v=1.3

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is South African National Biodiversity Institute. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 9a9dcc47-fdca-4881-998a-9596dcedff6a.  South African National Biodiversity Institute publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by South African Biodiversity Information Facility.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

Who created the resource:

Klaas Manamela
Project manager
Ditsong National Museum
432 Visagie Street
0001 Pretoria
Gauteng
ZA
012 322 7632
http://www.ditsong.org.za/naturalhistory.htm

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Klaas Manamela
Project manager
Ditsong National Museum
432 Visagie Street
0001 Pretoria
Gauteng
ZA
012 322 7632
http://www.ditsong.org.za/naturalhistory.htm

Who filled in the metadata:

Fhatani Ranwashe
Data Technician
South African National Biodiversity Institute
Private Bag X7, Kirstenbosch
7735 Claremont
Western Cape
ZA
0217998738
http://www.sanbi.org/

Who else was associated with the resource:

Content Provider
Klaas Manamela
Project manager
Ditsong National Museum
432 Visagie Street
0001 Pretoria
Gauteng
ZA
012 322 7632
http://www.ditsong.org.za/naturalhistory.htm

Geographic Coverage

Africa

Bounding Coordinates South West [-34.19, -18.09], North East [38.16, 53.59]

Taxonomic Coverage

Herpetology, Mammals and Ornithology

Class  Amphibia (Amphibians),  Aves (Birds),  Reptilia (Reptiles),  Mammalia (Mammals)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1805-01-01 / 2008-01-01

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 9a9dcc47-fdca-4881-998a-9596dcedff6a
http://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanbi/resource?r=ditsong