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Specimen Record

ContinentNorth America
CountryUnited States
State/ProvinceNew York
County/ParishTompkins
LocalityIthaca
Latitude42.4381028
Longitude-76.5094764
Institution CodeCumv
Collection CodeHerps
Catalog NumberA-0005697
Collected ByRobert H. Backus
Date Collected1950-04-23

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https://www.cumv.cornell.edu/

The CUMV Amphibian & Reptile Collection became one of the leading university based herp collections in North America during the first half of this century, largely because of the efforts of Professor Albert Hazen Wright and his wife, Anna Allen Wright. The major strengths of the collection, amphibians from the southeastern United States and both reptiles and amphibians from the Northeast, reflects the intensive collection by the Wrights. Much of the material collected by the Wrights in New York and Georgia is not duplicated elsewhere. The last 15 years have been seen important acquisitions for the collection. To complement our traditional strength in North American taxa, we have made a concerted effort to obtain foreign material, especially synoptic series representing geographic areas. Through collecting, exchanges and acquisition of other various collections we now have good representation of Costa Rican viperids, lizards from Western and South Australia, amphibians and reptiles from Puerto Rico, snakes and lizards from Mexico, and a more representative collection of African and European species.

Contacts

Name Casey Dillman
RoleCurator of Fishes, Amphibians and Reptiles
Emailcbd63@cornell.edu
Name Casey Dillman
RoleCurator of Fishes, Amphibians and Reptiles
Emailcbd63@cornell.edu
Name David Bloom
RoleCoordinator
Emaildbloom@vertnet.org
Name John Wieczorek
RoleInformation Architect
Emailtuco@berkeley.edu
Name Charles Dardia
RoleCollections Manager
Emailcmd7@cornell.edu
Name Casey Dillman
RoleCurator of Fishes, Amphibians and Reptiles
Emailcbd63@cornell.edu
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