HerpNET

Taxonomic Group	Amphibians / Reptiles
Level of Organization	Species
Scale	Global
Data Type	Compilation
Georeferenced	Yes

This web site hosts a global network of herpetological collections data from natural history museums, currently including 50 institutions and 5.5 million speciments.

Data Location: HerpNET

Sites Georefferenced: Yes

Comments: Data are searchable by data provider, scientific name and locality [HERE]. HerpNET is part of the VertNet cooperative data network.

Example Citation: Data were obtained from records held in the following institutions and accessed through the HerpNET data portal (http://www.herpnet.org) on 15 February 2006: California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco; Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge; Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, etc.