KwaZulu-Natal Museum-Arachnida-Collection

Occurrence Specimen
Latest version published by KwaZulu-Natal Museum on Sept 12, 2023 KwaZulu-Natal Museum
Publication date:
12 September 2023
Published by:
KwaZulu-Natal Museum
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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Description

The KwaZulu-Natal Museum has a long history of arachnology research, and significant collections were built up by previous researchers. Currently we have no active researchers using these collections within the museum, but they still form an important resource for the international research community. Spiders (6000 specimens) and scorpions form the largest part of the arachnology collections (2500); but opilionids (1300), pseudoscorpions (500), ticks and mites (1400), and solifugids (600) are also well represented. Terrestrial isopods (200) and amphipods (1500) are curated along with the arachnids. Much of this material is from KwaZulu-Natal, and was collected by Dr R. F. Lawrence who was based at the Natal Museum for more than 20 years. The collection includes more than 1000 type specimens.

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 22,393 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.

Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Zamisa S (2023). KwaZulu-Natal Museum-Arachnida-Collection. Version 1.0. KwaZulu-Natal Museum. Occurrence dataset. http://ipt.kznm.saiab.ac.za/resource?r=kznm-arachnida&v=1.0

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is KwaZulu-Natal Museum. 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: d90727f8-cb15-4284-8197-1d43f80bcec6.  KwaZulu-Natal Museum publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by South African Biodiversity Information Facility.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; KwaZulu-Natal Museum; Arachnida; Opilionids; Pseudoscorpions; Ticks; Mites and Solifugids

Contacts

Siyabonga Zamisa
  • Point Of Contact
  • Data Technician
KwaZulu-Natal Museum
  • 237 Jabu Ndlovu Street
3201 Pietermaritzburg
KwaZulu-Natal
ZA
  • +27333410524
Siyabonga Zamisa
  • Point Of Contact
  • Assistant Director
KwaZulu-Natal Museum
  • 237 Jabu Ndlovu Street
3201 Pietermaritzburg
KwaZulu-Natal
ZA
  • +27333410559

Geographic Coverage

The Arachnida collection has predominantly an African geographic range but do have specimen records which are also found in Europe, North America and South America.

Bounding Coordinates South West [-58.078, -172.969], North East [71.525, 54.844]

Project Data

Varierty of specimens with the collection including more than 1000 type specimens

Title Archnida Collection
Identifier KwaZulu-Natal Museum

The personnel involved in the project:

Reginald Lawrence
  • User

Collection Data

Collection Name Arachnida Collection
Specimen preservation methods Alcohol,  Microscopic preparation

Additional Metadata