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University of Nebraska State Museum Mammals Collection

Specimen Records: 21,440
Media Records: 0
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2021-03-02

The first concerted effort to collect mammal specimens for research purposes was instigated by Myron Swenk at the early part of the 20th century. Terry A. Vaughan was a student and contributed collections in the late 1950s. Vaughan’s textbook "Mammalogy" was first printed in 1972 and is in its 6th edition. J. Knox Jones, Jr. contributed specimens in the 1940s and 1950s culminating in his "Distribution and taxonomy of mammals of Nebraska" (1964). Dr. Harvey Gunderson was assistant director of the museum, professor in Zoology, and curator of Zoology from 1964-1977 during which he also produced a textbook for mammalogy in 1976. In 1997 the Chadron State College (Nebraska) and in 1999 the University of South Dakota mammal collections were transferred to UNSM and incorporated in the collections. Hugh H. Genoways, a mammologist and museum director (1986-1994) added to the collections (primarily Antillean bats), including describing two new subspecies of bats from Grenada and Montserrat in 1998. Genoways and colleagues also produced "Mammals of Nebraska--Checklist, Key, and Bibliography" (2008). A newly discovered species of Panamanian bat (Cynomops freemani) was named in 2018 for Zoology’s recently retired curator, Patricia W. Freeman. In 2019 the University of Nebraska – Kearney (formerly Kearney State College) collections were transferred to UNSM (not yet in this dataset). The collection now has over 21,400 specimens primarily from Nebraska and the northern Great Plains and includes nearly 1,000 collected prior to 1925. Like most state collections, the UNSM mammal collection contains many large series of single species useful for population studies, but now there are substantial holdings of whole skeletons (6,300). An excellent collection of big game trophy heads collected by Mr. Elgin Gates in the mid-20th century are displayed in the halls; these have data and represent several endangered and threatened species.

Contacts

Name Thomas Labedz
RoleCollection Manager
Emailtlabedz1@unl.edu
Name Thomas Labedz
RoleCollection Manager
Emailtlabedz1@unl.edu
Name Laura Russell
RoleVertNet Programmer
Emaillarussell@vertnet.org
Name David Bloom
RoleVertNet Coordinator
Emaildbloom@vertnet.org
Name John Wieczorek
RoleInformation Architect
Emailtuco@berkeley.edu
Name Thomas Labedz
RoleCollection Manager
Emailtlabedz1@unl.edu
Name Robert Zink
RoleCurator
Emailrzink2@unl.edu
This table shows any data corrections that were performed on this recordset to improve the capabilities of iDigBio Search. The first column represents the correction performed. The last two columns represent the number and percentage of records that were corrected. A complete list of the data quality flags and their descriptions can be found here. Clicking on a data flag name will take you to a search for all records with this flag in this recordset.
FlagRecords With This Flag(%) Percent With This Flag
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