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Arizona State University Herpetology Collection (ASU-ASUHEC)

The Herpetology Collection at the ASU Natural History Collections contains approximately 38,000 specimens representing more than 900 species, with a geographic concentration in the western United States and northwestern Mexico. Please note: when searching our collection, all catalog numbers follow the format ASUHEC######

Collection Manager: Dakota Rowsey, drowsey@asu.edu, (480)727-5870 (ORCID #: 0000-0002-5925-0579)
Homepage: https://biokic.asu.edu/collections
ASU Vertebrate Tissue Collection: https://csvcoll.org/portal/collections/misc/collprofiles.php?collid=1060
Specimen Loan and Collection Use Request Form: https://forms.gle/fmnqR36MYTeQdyZT8
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 2bb2a2e8-c907-40c9-a2d2-65bb4959e939
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://csvcoll.org/portal/content/dwca/ASU-ASUHEC_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
Address:
Arizona State University
734 W Alameda Drive
Tempe, Arizona   85282
USA
(480) 727-5870
Collection Statistics
  • 35,170 specimen records
  • 33,293 (95%) georeferenced
  • 4 (0.01%) with images (9 total images)
  • 33,626 (96%) identified to species
  • 101 families
  • 410 genera
  • 933 species
  • 1,157 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics