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Specimen Record

ContinentOceania
CountryPapua New Guinea
State/ProvinceNew Britain Island
County/ParishMuia
LocalityAprox. 20 Mi. N.e. Of Kandrian - Camp 14.
Institution CodeAmnh
Collection CodeMammals
Catalog NumberM-194275
Collected ByM. T. Gilliard
Date Collected1959-01-26

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Founded in 1869, the AMNH mammal collections are among the oldest in the museum. Today, the Department of Mammalogy houses over 275,000 specimens, making it the third largest collection of recent mammals in the world. The scientific mission of the Department of Mammalogy is to describe the diversity of living and recently extinct mammals and to explore the mechanisms responsible for their evolution and extinction. In fulfillment of this objective, the department collects, archives and studies specimens of recent mammals and the data associated with those specimens. We aim always to provide the highest standards of curatorial care and to promote access to the collections by other scholars. The collections are visited by an average of 130 researchers every year, and the Department loans over 500 specimens a year to researchers around the globe. The Recent Mammals Collection, together with the remarkable collection of books, journals, and manuscripts of the Department Library and Archives provides scholars with outstanding resources for research in mammalian systematics, biodiversity and evolutionary biology.

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Name Tom Trombone
RoleData Manager
Emailtrombone@amnh.org
Name Tom Trombone
RoleData Manager
Emailtrombone@amnh.org
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Taxonomy
Scientific NamePteropus capistratus capistratus
Higher ClassficationAnimalia;Chordata;Mammalia;Chiroptera;Pteropodidae;Pteropus
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassMammalia
OrderChiroptera
FamilyPteropodidae
GenusPteropus
Specific Epithetcapistratus
Infraspecific Epithetcapistratus
Taxon Ranksubspecies
Nomenclatural CodeICZN
Specimen
Catalog NumberM-194275
PreparationsNot Mounted
Individual Count1
Sexmale
Institution CodeAMNH
Collection CodeMammals
Occurrence IDurn:catalog:AMNH:Mammals:M-194275
Basis of RecordPreservedSpecimen
Type of ResourcePhysicalObject
Collection Event
Collected ByM. T. Gilliard
Collector NumberM.G. 187
Date Collected1959-01-26
Verbatim Date Collected1959-01-26
Year1959
Month1
Day26
Start Day of Year26
End Day of Year26
Locality
CountryPapua New Guinea
State / ProvinceNew Britain Island
CountyMuia
Higher GeographyNew Guinea;Papua New Guinea;New Britain Island;Muia;;;;
ContinentNew Guinea
LocalityAprox. 20 mi. N.E. of Kandrian - Camp 14.
Verbatim LocalityNew Guinea; Papua New Guinea; New Britain Island; Muia; ; ; ; ; ; ; New Guinea; Papua New Guinea; New Britain Island; Muia; ; ; ; ; ; ; Aprox. 20 mi. N.E. of Kandrian - Camp 14.
Maximum Elevation in Meters305
Minimum Elevation in Meters305
Verbatim Elevation1000 ft
Other
Languageen
Modified2013-08-07
IDurn:catalog:AMNH:Mammals:M-194275
dwc:datasetID7ddf754f-d193-4cc9-b351-99906754a03b
dwc:establishmentMeansnative
dwc:occurrenceStatuspresent
dcterms:accessRightshttp://www.vertnet.org/resources/norms.html
dwc:dynamicPropertiesTotal Length: 182 mm; Wingspan: 945 mm; Hind Foot: 31 mm; Ear: 19 mm; Body: 277 g
dcterms:licensehttp://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0
dwc:institutionIDurn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34925
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