Dataset from the Snakes (Serpentes, Reptiles) collection of the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Pará, Brazil

By

Prudente, Ana Lúcia da Costa
Ramos, Lorran
Silva, Timóteo
Sarmento, João
Dourado, Angelo
Silva, Fernanda
Almeida, Paula
Santos, Cleverson
De Sousa, Marcos

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2019-04-18

Original Publication

Biodiversity data journal

Volume

7

Pages

1--12

Subjects

Amazon , biodiversity dataset , collection , diversity , Inventories , rainforest , Reptiles. , Serpentes , Snakes , Squamata

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia Pensoft Publishers [2013]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.7.e34013
eLocator: e34013

 

Abstract

We present a dataset with information from the snake collection of the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, known as the “Ophidia Collection”. This collection currently has 26,728 specimens of snakes, including 9 families, 66 genera and 220 species. For the most part, it represents material from the Amazon Region. Specimens are preserved mostly in wet (alcohol) preparation, with some samples preserved in dry form, as is the case of the shells and skeletons of turtles. The dataset is now available for public consultation on the Global Biodiversity Information Facility portal (https://doi.org/10.15468/lt0wet).The Herpetological collection of Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi comprises the largest collection of its kind in the Amazon region with about 100,000 specimens of amphibians and reptiles (chelonians, alligators, lizards, snakes and amphisbaenians). This collection currently has 26,728 specimens of snakes, including 9 families, 66 genera and 220 species, some of which are endemic to the Amazon rainforest region. The Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi is the second oldest institution of science in Brazil in activity, founded in 1866.