Biological Collection of the National Taiwan Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

Fu Chun Yang1, Fu-Chun Yang2

1 National Taiwan Museum, Collection Management Department, Taipei, Taiwan; 2 

Corresponding author(s): Fu Chun Yang (fcyang@ntm.gov.tw)

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Abstract

This dataset is one of the main digitization products of National Taiwan Museum (Taipei, Taiwan) biological collection specimen, which include fish specimen from Johnson T.F. Chen (陳兼善), snack specimen from Ming-Chung Tu (杜銘章), bird specimen from Wild Bird Society of Taipei (臺北市野鳥學會), shellfish specimen from Yasuichi Horikawa (堀川安市) and Kin-Yang Lai (賴景陽), crustacean specimen from Chia-Hsiang Wang (王嘉祥), algae specimen from and Young-Meng Chiang (江永棉) and Su-fang Huang (黃淑芳),  bryophyte and lichen specimen from Ming-Jou Lai (賴明洲 ), Chung-K'uei Wang (王忠魁), and Shan-Hsiung Lin (林善雄), and some specimen of extinct or regional extinct species such as Neofelis nebulosa brachyura Swinhoe, 1862 and Cyrenodonax formosana Dall, 1903.

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.taibif.tw/resource?r=ntm-bio-collection

Taxonomic coverage

Taxonomic ranks
Kingdom: Plantae, Chromista, Fungi
Phylum: Tracheophyta, Bryophyta, Marchantiophyta, Anthocerotophyta, Chlorophyta, Rhodophyta, Ochrophyta, Foraminifera, Mollusca, Platyhelminthes, Brachiopoda, Arthropoda, Chordata
Class: Insecta, Malacostraca, Merostomata, Mammalia, Aves, Squamata, Testudines, Crocodylia, Amphibia
Informal: Lichens, Invertebrates, Fish
Common names: plants, vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, green algae, red algae, brown algae, lichens, invertebrates, flatworms, insects, chordates, mammals, birds, turtles, amphibians, fish

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Taiwan
Coordinates: 90°0'0''S and 90°0'0''N Latitude; 180°0'0''W and 180°0'0''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: 1818 - September 26, 2023

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Biological Collection of the National Taiwan Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.taibif.tw/archive.do?r=ntm-bio-collection
Publication date of data: 2024-03-28
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2022-04-19
Hierarchy level: Dataset