Description
The zoological collections in IICT include vertebrates and invertebrates. For the time being, only mammals, birds and amphibians collections are fully cataloged, totalizing about 1500, 5000 and 2000 records, respectively, These include the samples from field expeditions to Guinea-Bissau (1944, 1945, 1946, 1953), to Mozambique (1948, 1955) and to São Tomé and Principe.
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 9,244 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
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Figueira R (2013): IICT Colecção Zoológica. v4.2. Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical. Dataset/Occurrence. http://maerua.iict.pt/ipt/resource?r=iict_cz&v=4.2
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: c690c2b5-8002-4d12-831c-9258dd618f78. Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Portugal.
Keywords
Occurrence; specimens; birds; mammals; Angola; Cape Verde; Guinea-Bissau; Mozambique; São Tomé and Príncipe; Specimen
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
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- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
Geographic Coverage
Main countries represented are Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and São Tomé e Príncipe.
Bounding Coordinates | South West [-40.958, -26.016], North East [52.07, 150.469] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
Phylum | Chordata (Vertebrates) |
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Temporal Coverage
Start Date / End Date | 1920-08-01 / 1996-04-16 |
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Project Data
No Description available
Title | LISCDigital |
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Funding | Digitization has benefit from funds from several sources: from FCT, the Portuguese National research Council, contracts: PTDC/BIA-QOR/71492/2006; ACTD. |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Principal Investigator
Sampling Methods
No Description available
Quality Control | Regular quality cycles were performed on the inserted data selected at random, starting at 5% revision rate, with increased adjustments on this rate in function of the error rate. |
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Method step description:
- Data cataloguing was originally done using Specify ver 6. The taxon authority file for mammals was downloaded from ITIS. The authority file for birds follows the IOC bird list.
Collection Data
Collection Name | IICT Colecção Zoológica |
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Collection Identifier | 24798813-aaff-4292-98ef-8c9bc415ff14 |
Parent Collection Identifier | Not applicable |
Curatorial Units | Count 5,500 +/- 100 skins , Count 600 +/- 100 bones , Count 700 +/- 100 specimen in jar |
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Bibliographic Citations
- Monteiro M, Reino L, Melo M, Beja P, Bastos-Silveira C, Ramos M, Rodrigues D, Neves IQ, Consciência S, Figueira R (2016) The collection of birds from São Tomé and Príncipe at the Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical of the University of Lisbon (Portugal). ZooKeys 600: 155-167. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.600.7899
- Monteiro M, Reino L, Beja P, Mills M, Bastos-Silveira C, Ramos M, Rodrigues D, Queirós Neves I, Consciência S, Figueira R (2014) The collection and database of Birds of Angola hosted at IICT (Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical), Lisboa, Portugal. ZooKeys 387: 89-99. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.387.6412
Additional Metadata
Alternative Identifiers | c690c2b5-8002-4d12-831c-9258dd618f78 |
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http://maerua.iict.pt/ipt/resource?r=iict_cz |