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
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 85bffe41-ddef-4963-8695-536f9fee4685
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
  • Ammospermophilus (6)
  • Callosciurus (1)
  • Cynomys (25)
  • Glaucomys (106)
  • Ictidomys (134)
  • Marmota (38)
  • Petaurista (2)
  • Poliocitellus (12)
  • Sciurus (252)
  • Spermophilus (56)
  • Tamias (426)
  • Tamiasciurus (193)
  • Xerospermophilus (1)