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UCM Amphibian and Reptile Collection (Arctos)

Specimen Records: 68,464
Media Records: 2,734
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-06-23

The UCM Herpetology collection spans 81 countries, with its geographic strength in taxa from Colorado, Mexico and the southwestern United States. The collection contains over 68,000 specimens, including over 22,000 from Mexico, which have been actively studied and cited in systematic herpetology publications over recent decades. Additionally, the whiptail lizards (genus <i>Aspidoscelis</i>) are particularly well represented, including over 12,000 fluid-preserved specimens and two hundred dry skulls. World-renowned herpetologists, Hobart M. Smith and T. Paul Maslin, as well as a number of their students and collaborators, were the major architects of this collection. R. Earl Olson's contribution of 3,800+ specimens recently expanded our taxonomic and geographic coverage, including new material from Minnesota and Haiti. Most recently, Julio A. Lemos-Espinal contributed 2,600 specimens from the northern Mexican states of Sonora, Chihuahua, and Coahuila.

Contacts

Name Emily Braker
RoleVertebrate Zoology Collections Manager
Emailemily.braker@colorado.edu
Name Emily Braker
RoleVertebrate Zoology Collections Manager
Emailemily.braker@colorado.edu
Name David Bloom
RoleVertNet Coordinator
Emaildbloom@vertnet.org
Name Emily Braker
RoleVertebrate Zoology Collections Manager
Emailemily.braker@colorado.edu
Name Dusty McDonald
RoleArctos Database Programmer
Emaildlmcdonald@alaska.edu
Name Christy McCain
RoleVertebrate Zoology Curator
Emailchristy.mccain@colorado.edu
Name Emily Braker
RoleVertebrate Zoology Collections Manager
Emailemily.braker@colorado.edu
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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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