National Museum of Natural Science

Tien-Yu  Hsu1

1 National Museum of Natural Science, No. 1, Guancian Rd., Taichung, Chinese Taipei

Corresponding author(s): Tien-Yu  Hsu (dan@mail.nmns.edu.tw)

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Abstract

With the funding of Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Program (TELDAP), the National Museum of Natural Science has digitized and shared specimen data on fungi, plants, insects, mollusks, echinoderms, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, dolphins and whales, and other mammals. Some geological information is also provided. The insect specimens include Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, and Hemiptera. The plant specimens include low-elevation plants and vascular plants in Taiwan. The specimen collection time is between 1950 and 2009; the main locality is Taiwan. The lepidopteran insect has the largest number of specimens, followed by order Urticales of plants. A total of 41,151 records have been exported to TaiBIF.

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen

Data published through GBIF: http://taibif.tw/ipt/resource.do?r=nmns

Taxonomic coverage

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Taiwan
Coordinates: 20°46'12''N and 27°14'24''N Latitude; 118°40'12''E and 124°15'36''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: 1950 - 2009

Methods

Method step description: 

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive National Museum of Natural Science
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://taibif.tw/ipt/archive.do?r=nmns
Publication date of data: 2014-03-25
Language: English

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2014-03-11
Hierarchy level: Dataset