FBIP: Baboon spider distribution records from selected South African museums

Catherine Sole1, Ian Engelbrecht2, Mahlatse Kgatla3

1 University of Pretoria, University of Pretoria, Zoology Building, Office: 3-7. First Floor, 0002, Pretoria, South Africa; 2 SANBI, 2 Cussonia Avenue, 0184, Pretoria, South Africa; 3 SANBI, 2 Cussonia Avenue, Brummeria, 0184, Pretoria, South Africa

Corresponding author(s): Catherine Sole (catherine.sole@up.ac.za)Ian Engelbrecht (ianicus.za@gmail.com)

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Resource Citation

Sole C, Engelbrecht I (2019): FBIP: Baboon spider distribution records from selected South African museums. v1.0. South African National Biodiversity Institute. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanbi/resource?r=sole_up_2016_adm_v6&v=1.0

Abstract

Specimen records for baboon spiders from the Iziko South African Museum, Durban Museum of Natural History, Kwazulu-Natal Museum  an National Museum, Bloemfontein. The dataset was created as part of the Baboon Spider Atlas project (www.baboonspideratlas.co.za) which aims to document baboon spider diversity in Southern Africa. The records have also been included in the SpiderMap project on the ADU Virtual Museum (http://vmus.adu.org.za) and can be viewed there together with photographic records from citizen scientists.

Keywords: Baboon spiders, museum collections, digitization, georeference, Specimen

Project details

Project title: Baboon spider distribution records from selected South African museums
Personnel: Catherine Sole, Ian Engelbrecht
Funding: Foundational Biodiversity Information Programme
Study area descriptions/descriptor: Southern African

Data published through GBIF: http://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanbi/resource?r=sole_up_2016_adm_v6

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Baboon spiders (Araneae: Theraphosidae)
Taxonomic ranks
Family: Theraphosidae

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Southern African
Coordinates: 38°13'51.78''S and 7°4'22.01''S Latitude; 13°48'0''E and 38°36'58.36''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: November 30, 1886 - November 30, 2014

Methods

Method step description: Specimens were examined and identified by an expert. All records were extracted from the database for each institution and are included in the dataset, even where those specimens were not located in the collection. Taxonomy was updated in many cases, and existing identifications confirmed or corrected. The numbers of specimens and their sex in each series was also recorded. Locality records were georeferenced following the protocol of Wieczorek et al. 2004. Verbatim coordinates, where available, were used as a guide for georeferencing localities, and so the decimal coordinates fields should be correct, even where they don't match verbatim coordinates. 
Study extent description: Southern African
Sampling description: No specimens were collected. All identifications are based on existing museum specimens. 
Quality control description: Identifications were checked and updated, and locality records were georeferenced. Georeferenced were checked in a GIS.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive FBIP: Baboon spider distribution records from selected South African museums
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanbi/archive.do?r=sole_up_2016_adm_v6
Publication date of data: 2019-12-12
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2019-12-04
Hierarchy level: Dataset