Denver Museum of Nature & Science - Arachnology (DMNS-Arac)

Worldwide in scope though with a focus on the American West, the Arachnology collection at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science comprises over 50,000 specimen lots and is growing every year. The holdings include primary types and paratypes. Holdings are particularly strong in Colorado species and in Solifugae, with 13 primary types and 65 paratypes. The Colorado Spider Survey, initiated at DMNS in 1999, has vastly expanded our knowledge of the Colorado spider fauna. The collection is housed in the Avenir Collections Center - an onsite state-of-the-art museum collections facility.

Contact: Dr. Paula Cushing (paula.cushing@dmns.org)

Home Page: https://science.dmns.org/museum-scientists/paula-cushing/

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal

Global Unique Identifier: 722da3b7-73fe-41b6-b1c9-8801accd20f3

DwC-Archive Publishing: https://scan-bugs.org:443/portal/collections/datasets/datapublisher.php

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Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC BY-NC 4.0 (Attribution-Non-Commercial International)

Rights Holder: Denver Museum of Nature & Science

• 42,979 occurrence
• 42,393 (99%) georeferenced
• 882 (2%) with images
• 40,788 (95%) identified to species
• 110 families
• 545 genera
• 1,849 species
• 1,856 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)