Search Specimens
If your search does not work, select fewer than 45 institutions at a time. Hold down the Control or Shift buttons to select specific collections.

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-two institutions are participating in the HerpNET community, with an open-ended invitation to institutions who would like to join. Currently 55 institutions are available on the specimen searching portal, with data from over 5.5 million specimens available for searching.

VertNet: The Future
HerpNET, ORNIS, MaNIS and FishNet are taxon-based web portals that now serve georeferenced data on vertebrates from over 100 global institutions. Together these comprise VertNET, a cooperative project working to maintain and expand these distributed database projects. Future plans include implementation of an online user survey for the VertNet community, enhancement of the portal design, better searching capabilities, and a dynamic cache to expand performance 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.

Data Portal | Documents | Participants | Gazetteer