KUBI Mammalogy Collection

Specimen Records: 170,565

Media Records: 0

iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2026-03-25

The mammal collection at the University of Kansas Natural History Museum is one of the world's largest (the fifth largest mammal collection in North America and the third largest university collection in the world). The most common preparation type is a prepared skin, with the skull cleaned and stored in a separated container (our preparation code is SS). Second-most common is a skin with the entire skeleton cleaned and stored separately (SB). Some specimens consist only of a skull (SK) or cranium (CO). Other specimens may consist of a partial skeleton (PS), an entire skeleton (SN) or only a skin (SO). Many of our specimens are stored in alcohol (AL), or are in alcohol with the skull removed and cleaned (SA). Tissues associated with any of these preparation types are noted as a separate field in our database. Because there are active public education and exhibits programs in the KU Natural History Museum, a few of our specimens are taxidermy mounts (BM) and some are housed permanently on exhibit. Other preparation types are coded as “other” (OT). Occasionally, specimens are prepared with the baculum or os clitoris and separately stored in preserving fluid. Non-standard preparation types and additional materials are noted in a comments field in our database. We have extensive historical collections from Central America, Mexico, and southeast, central, western regions of the United States and Alaska. We recently added outstanding collections from the Philippines and New Guinea. We anticipate continuing to maintain our strengths in these geographic regions, emphasizing bats, rodents and insectivores—current taxonomic strengths. Most of our collection consists of nicely prepared skins, skulls, and complete skeletons, with most recent specimens accompanied by tissues. There are 135 type specimens in our collection at present. Of these, the largest number (97) are rodents. There are also 6 insectivore, 25 bat, 5 lagomorph, and 2 carnivore holotypes. Lists of the Mammalogy's type specimens have been published by Jones and Genoways (1969) and Jones et al. (1984), although several have been described since. Types have been described from Barbados, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico (14 states), Mozambique, Nicaragua, Philippines, Venezuela, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, and from 12 states in the U.S. All type specimens are kept in the designated "type case" at all times. Use of type specimens must be arranged with the curators. There is broad taxonomic coverage, including important holdings of Central and South American marsupials, insectivores, bats, rodents; Holarctic shrews, microtines, squirrels and North American bats, insectivores, carnivores, rodents and lagomorphs.

Contacts

Name	Andrew Bentley
Role	Bioinformatics Manager
Email	abentley@ku.edu

Name	Dianna Krejsa
Role	Collection Manager
Email	krejsa@ku.edu

Name	Jocelyn Colella
Role	Curator
Email	colella@ku.edu

Name	Dianna Krejsa
Role	Collection Manager
Email	krejsa@ku.edu

Name	Jocelyn Colella
Role	Curator
Email	colella@ku.edu

Data Corrected
Data Use
Raw

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.

Flag	Records With This Flag	(%) Percent With This Flag
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rev_geocode_eez i	2930	1.718
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dwc_infraspecificepithet_added i	994	0.583
geopoint_datum_missing i	873	0.512
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rev_geocode_lat_sign i	28	0.016
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced i	10	0.006
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Month of	Search	Download	Seen	Records Viewed
04 / 2023	2,743,267,334	286,003	4,213	190
05 / 2023	2,175,833,896	169,152	4,666	123
06 / 2023	2,266,050,968	170,657	1,821	108
07 / 2023	2,094,183,637	696,386	57,153	134
08 / 2023	2,043,696,554	7,792	3,314	179
09 / 2023	2,663,917,430	589,067	4,389	245
10 / 2023	3,468,083,051	6,479,404	15,933	174
11 / 2023	3,042,280,712	1,245,527	26,754	985
12 / 2023	2,453,711,581	9,218	100,097	786
01 / 2024	4,053,675,378	3,719	12,774	661
02 / 2024	5,972,408,079	1,383,492	15,030	628
03 / 2024	6,031,650,831	25,119,696	9,245	844
04 / 2024	7,662,600,677	5,761,842	6,876	597
05 / 2024	31,595,815,691	18,524,896	6,088	704
06 / 2024	11,804,863,473	3,212,961	3,289	868
07 / 2024	6,827,568,987	6,393,579	89,370	1,516
08 / 2024	14,439,294,186	5,997,629	269,654	535
09 / 2024	12,890,014,234	351,413	150,740	326
10 / 2024	9,589,321,403	23,102,143	78,198	140
11 / 2024	11,779,921,643	3,241,153	79,124	385
12 / 2024	4,064,695,665	39,756	40,561	258
01 / 2025	8,919,486,150	147	42,836	147
02 / 2025	6,330,753,466	607,522	52,870	207
03 / 2025	3,735,011,813	3,360,684	159,109	282
04 / 2025	3,646,531,208	3,293,391	43,097	133
05 / 2025	4,006,318,907	94	51,574	395
06 / 2025	3,571,783,947	1,517,019	49,504	321
07 / 2025	569,560,257	735,380	5,395	32
08 / 2025	4,634,157,700	51	52,913	52
09 / 2025	6,769,132,847	7,085	39,901	186
10 / 2025	29,913,061,806	2,883,461	82,341	761
11 / 2025	40,531,379,341	2,298,499	57,680	1,030
12 / 2025	37,649,525,211	168,272	72,796	1,506
01 / 2026	13,234,555,015	32,440	27,011	1,366
02 / 2026	19,466,935,554	620,923	19,687	2,161
03 / 2026	20,733,373,960	3,628,035	24,609	1,428
04 / 2026	1,309,897,220	225	1,167	269

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Recordset

KUBI Mammalogy Collection

Contacts