Asian Herpetological Collection - IICT

Luis Ceriaco1, Mariana Marques2, Mariana Marques3

1 Museu de Historia Natural e da Ciencia da Universidade do Porto, Praça Gomes Teixeira, 4099-002, Porto, Portugal; 2 Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência - Universidade de Lisboa, Rua da Escola Politécnica 58, 1250-102, Lisboa, Portugal; 3 Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência - Universidade de Lisboa, Rua da Escola Politécnica 58, 1250-102, Lisboa

Corresponding author(s): Luis Ceriaco (luisceriaco@gmail.com)Mariana Marques (mptlmarques@gmail.com), Mariana Marques (mptlmarques@gmail.com)

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Resource Citation

Ceriaco LMP, Marques MP (2018): Asian Herpetological Collection - IICT. v1. Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.gbif.pt/ipt/resource?r=asian_herpetological_collections_iict&amp;v=1.0

Abstract

The Asian herpetological collections of the Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical (IICT), currently housed in the Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência (MUHNAC) are part of the scientific collections of the Universidade de Lisboa (UL), Portugal.
This set of collections is represented by three independent collections: the Macau region collection, the East Timor collection, and the Portuguese India collection. It comprises a total of 313 records (341 specimens), representing 36 taxa (12 amphibians and 24 reptiles). These were collected between 1956 and 1989, either by targeted surveys promoted by the IICT or by fortuitous collections and donations by private individuals and researchers.

Keywords: Occurrence; Amphibia; Reptilia; Timor; Macau; India; Collections; Specimens, Specimen

Project details

Project title: Cataloguing and Digitizing the Herpetological Collections of MUHNAC and IICT
Personnel: Luis Ceriaco, Mariana Marques
Funding: No funding was used.
Study area descriptions/descriptor: The specimens are originary from the former Portuguese overseas territories in Asia, namelly Macau (currently a territory of the People's Republic of China), Timor Leste ( currently the independent country of Timor Leste, also known as Timor Loro Sae or East Timor), and the Portuguese enclaves of Goa (now part of the Republic of India).
Design description: The work consisted of cross checking the specimens and respective specimen labels, available field note books, catalogues and publications, to generate a consolidated electronic database. Taxonomic identity were reviewed following the most updated bibliography and in accordance with The Reptile Database [http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/] and the Amphibia Species of the World v.6.0 [http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/] online databases. 
Once the database was prepared, the records pertaining to the Asian Herpetological collections of IICT were prepared for publication.

Data published through GBIF: http://ipt.gbif.pt/ipt/resource?r=asian_herpetological_collections_iict

Taxonomic coverage

Taxonomic ranks
Class: Reptilia, Amphibia
Order: Squamata, Testudines, Anura, Urodela
Family: Gekkonidae, Cylindrophiidae, Agamidae, Varanidae, Viperidae, Colubridae, Elapidae, Bufonidae, Dicroglossidae, Microhylidae, Rhacophoridae, Ranidae, Cryptobranchidae, Typhlopidae, Scincidae, Geomydidae
Genus: Andrias, Bungarus, Calotes, Cylindrophis, Dendrelaphis, Draco, Duttaphrynus, Fejervarya, Gekko, Hemidactylus, Hoplobatrachus, Indotyphlops, Kaloula, Laticauda, Leiolepis, Lycodon, Lygossoma, Mauremys, Microhyla, Ophiophagus, Polypedates, Ptyas, Scincella, Sylvirana, Trimeresurus, Varanus, Xenochrophis
Species: Andrias davidianus, Bungarus multicinctus, Calotes versicolor, Cylindrophis boulengeri, Draco timorensis, Duttaphrynus melanostictus, Fejervarya limnocharis, Gekko chinensis, Gekko gecko, Hemidactylus bowringii, Hemidactylus brookii, Hemidactylus frenatus, Hemidactylus garnotii, Hoplobatrachus rugulosus, Hoplobatrachus trigerinus, Indotyphlops braminus, Kaloula pulchra, Laticauda colubrina, Leiolepis reevesii, Lycodon subcinctus, Lygossoma punctata, Mauremys reevesii, Microhyla ornata, Microhyla pulchra, Polypedates megacephalus, Ptyas korros, Ptyas mucosa, Scincella reevesii, Sylvirana guentheri, Trimeresurus albolabris, Trimeresurus insularis, Varanus timorensis, Xenochrophis pisctor
Subspecies: Dendrelaphis inornatus timorensis

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: The former Portuguese oveseas territories in Macau (People's Republic of China), Timor Loro Sae (East-Timor), Republic of India.
Coordinates: 12°12'39.6''S and 28°18'14.4''N Latitude; 67°51'7.2''E and 130°4'40.8''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: 1953

Natural collections description

Parent collection identifier: IICT
Collection name: Asian Herpetological Collection - IICT
Collection identifier: IICT
Specimen preservation method: Alcohol

Methods

Method step description: 1.
Study extent description: Former Portuguese territories in Asia, namelly Macau, Timor and India.
Sampling description: For Macau a detailed sampling description is provided by Dias, J.A.T.S., Mendes, L.F., Crawford-Cabral, Pinheiro, M., Mesquitela, L.M. & Burnay, L.P. (1994) Resultados das missões de estudo realizadas em Macau pelo Centro de Zoologia do IICT. I – Introdução e natureza dos trabalhos efectuados.  Garcia de Orta, Série de Zoologia, Lisboa, 20 (1–2): 1–30.

For India some sampling information is provided by Manaças, S. (1961) Notas Herpetológicas-India Portuguesa. Memórias da Junta de Investigação do Ultramar, 23 (2): 33–41.

For Timor some sampling information is provided by Manaças, S. (1972) Estudo de alguns répteis e Díli (Timor Português). Garcia de Orta, Série de Zoologia, Lisboa, 1 (1): 1–4
Quality control description: Specimens were checked one by one. Taxonomic identification followed the most updated available bibliography. Locality, collector and collecting dates data were retrived from the original labels, publications and field notebooks.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Asian Herpetological Collection - IICT
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt.gbif.pt/ipt/archive.do?r=asian_herpetological_collections_iict
Publication date of data: 2018-12-20
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2018-11-29
Hierarchy level: Dataset