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University of Wisconsin Stevens Point Mammals (UWSP-Mammals)

UWSP has the second largest mammal collection in Wisconsin. The approximately 10,000 specimens consists primarily of study skins and skeletal material with a small number of fluid specimens and frozen tissue.

Contacts: Christopher Yahnke, cyahnke@uwsp.edu
Homepage: https://www.uwsp.edu/wildlife/Pages/Faculty/yahnke.aspx
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 85bffe41-ddef-4963-8695-536f9fee4685
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://csvcoll.org/portal/content/dwca/UWSP-Mammals_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)
Collection Statistics
  • 10,339 specimen records
  • 119 (1%) georeferenced
  • 52 (0.5%) with images (118 total images)
  • 9,115 (88%) identified to species
  • 70 families
  • 180 genera
  • 259 species
  • 261 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Anoura (2)
  • Artibeus (15)
  • Carollia (3)
  • Desmodus (2)
  • Glossophaga (3)
  • Leptonycteris (4)
  • Macrotus (5)
  • Phyllostomus (2)
  • Sturnira (4)