South Australian Museum Herpetology Collection

Over 70,000 specimens have been registered in this collection, which has a particular emphasis on South Australian and arid zone fauna. A second major regional focus is Melanesia, especially the island of New Guinea (Papua New Guinea and Papua Province, Indonesia), with some 6,000 registered specimens. Most material is formalin-fixed and stored in 70% alcohol, with tadpoles stored in formalin. There is a significant dry skeletal collection of over 1,500 specimens, mostly skulls, and this will continue to be expanded. Since 1980, the great majority of specimens acquired (approx. 40,000) have had tissue samples (mostly liver) taken for genetic and biochemical research. These are held in the S.A. Museum's Australian Biological Tissue Collection. All specimens are individually registered and the data entered on a collections management system. All specimens are stored on-site in the S.A. Museum Science Centre alcohol storage facilities.\r\n\r\nThe SA Museum manages this dataset using the KE EMu collection management system. It is interpreted into the [Darwin Core](http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/index.htm) metadata schema (DwC) and semi-regularly exported to the [Atlas of Living Australia](http://www.ala.org.au/) (ALA) and the [Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums](http://www.ozcam.org.au/) (OZCAM). \r\n\r\nData sourced from Australian museums on both the ALA and OZCAM should be identical, but on ALA they are combined with observational data from citizen science initiatives and other sources. Both of those sites make it possible to combine, interrogate and analyse data through web services such as the [Spatial Analysis Portal](http://spatial.ala.org.au/). In the Spatial Portal ALA data can be combined with meteorological and other environmental data sourced from and made accessible by relevant government agencies.\r\n\r\nThe ALA also has a fully documented [API](http://api.ala.org.au/)\r\n\r\nData about endangered species are either withheld from online publication, or coordinates or other data are obscured on the ALA and OZCAM. In those circumstances more specific information is available directly from SA Museum collection managers if it is genuinely required for research purposes.\r\n\r\nSA Museum data can be downloaded in full from the Atlas of Living Australia, or broken down into discipline specific parts (e.g. Herpetology, Mammalogy etc). On download the ALA will request an email address (not mandatory) and a reason for download (mandatory) – this is required to track usage of the ALA data to help data providers determine priorities for upload and improvement. \r\n\r\n\r\n本馆藏已登记标本逾70000号，其收藏重点为南澳大利亚州及干旱带动物区系。第二大区域研究重点为美拉尼西亚，尤以新几内亚岛（巴布亚新几内亚及印度尼西亚巴布亚省）为甚，相关登记标本约6000号。馆藏绝大多数标本经福尔马林固定后保存于70%乙醇溶液中，蝌蚪标本则单独保存于福尔马林溶液中。另有逾1500号的大型干燥骨骼标本馆藏（以头骨为主），且该馆藏仍在持续扩充中。自1980年起，新入藏的绝大多数标本（约40000号）均采集了组织样本（以肝脏组织为主）用于遗传与生化研究，这些样本保存于南澳大利亚博物馆（S.A. Museum）澳大利亚生物组织馆藏库中。所有标本均完成单独登记，相关数据录入馆藏管理系统，且均就地保存于南澳大利亚博物馆（S.A. Museum）科学中心的乙醇存储设施内。 本数据集由南澳大利亚博物馆（S.A. Museum）通过KE EMu馆藏管理系统进行管理，其数据被转换为[达尔文核心（Darwin Core）](http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/index.htm)元数据架构（DwC），并半定期导出至[澳大利亚生物多样性图谱（Atlas of Living Australia, ALA）](http://www.ala.org.au/)与[澳大利亚博物馆在线动物馆藏库（Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums, OZCAM）](http://www.ozcam.org.au/)。 ALA与OZCAM平台上来自澳大利亚各博物馆的同源数据理应完全一致，但ALA平台还整合了来自公民科学项目及其他渠道的观测数据。上述两大平台均支持通过[空间分析门户（Spatial Analysis Portal）](http://spatial.ala.org.au/)等Web服务实现数据的整合、查询与分析。在空间分析门户中，ALA数据可与相关政府机构提供并公开的气象及其他环境数据进行整合。 ALA平台还提供了完整文档化的[应用程序编程接口（API）](http://api.ala.org.au/)。 关于濒危物种的数据，要么不予在线公开，要么在ALA与OZCAM平台上对其坐标及其他敏感数据进行模糊处理。若确因研究需求需获取此类更具体的信息，可直接向南澳大利亚博物馆（S.A. Museum）馆藏管理人员提出申请。 用户可从澳大利亚生物多样性图谱完整下载南澳大利亚博物馆的相关数据，也可按学科分类下载（如两栖爬行动物学、哺乳动物学等）。下载数据时，ALA平台会要求填写电子邮箱地址（非必填）及下载原因（必填）——此举旨在追踪ALA数据的使用情况，以帮助数据提供方确定数据上传与优化的优先级。