Search Specimens on the HerpNET Portal

VertNet Portal

General Information:

Georeferencing:

Related Projects:
HerpNET is a collaborative effort by natural history museums to establish a global network of herpetological collections data, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF No. 0132303) and a GBIF DIGIT grant. Sixty-four institutions are participating in the HerpNET community, with an open ended invitation to institutions who would like to join. Currently 61 collections are available on the HerpNET2 specimen searching portal, with data from over 5.5 million specimens available for searching.

VertNet: The Future
HerpNET, ORNIS, MaNIS and FishNet2 are taxon-based web portals that now serve georeferenced data on vertebrates from over 100 global institutions and collections. Together these comprise VertNET, a cooperative project working to maintain and expand these distributed database projects. Future plans include biodiversity informatics workshops, enhancement of the portal design, better searching capabilities, and a dynamic cloud-based platform to expand performance, sustainability, annotation and analytic features.

Comments and questions should be directed to the HerpNET Coordinator: Carol Spencer. Sauromalus ater photo by Glenn and Martha Vargas © at CalPhotos.

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