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Database For Museums' Specimens

Hello, I would like you to suggest me a web database listing specimens conserved in different museums for different species.

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updated by Whetting Whetting • written by Anima Mundi Anima Mundi

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GBIF http://data.gbif.org is a large aggregation of numerous museum databases, you can search by different criteria (e.g., taxon name, geography), and there is an API. The museums that contribute to GBIF are listed here: http://data.gbif.org/datasets/

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written by Roderic Page • Roderic Page

One museum only: Here is a record in the database of the "Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle": http://coldb.mnhn.fr/CatalogNumber/MNHN/F/R65227

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written by Pierre Lindenbaum Pierre Lindenbaum

I was reading the story this week about the cool project from the New York Botanical Garden specimens here: Modern Genomic Tools Cull Clues From Antique Plant Specimens , and I followed a link to NYBG to find this: http://sciweb.nybg.org/science2/IndexHerbariorum.asp

Index Herbariorum: A Global Directory of Public Herbaria and Associated Staff

It's not direct, but it should lead you to a lot of specimens. That Biorepository.org link looks promising too.

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written by Mary Mary

http://research.amnh.org/genomics/Facilities/AMCC
this is the best I know

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