Museum of Southwestern Biology Division of Parasitology - ParasiteTracker (MSB-PARA)

The Museum of Southwestern Biology (MSB) is a university-based research natural history collection at the University of New Mexico. The MSB has supported original research of national and international significance on the systematics, ecology, and life history of plants, invertebrates, and vertebrates for more than 50 years. The MSB consists of 9 divisions, including the Division of Mammals, the Division of Parasites, and the Division of Genomic Resources which are participating in The Parasite Tracker TCN. The MSB includes both historic collections as well as new accessions from current biodiversity inventories and is actively growing with collections of holistic/extended specimens through local, national and international field efforts. The Division of Mammals is a premier research collection, ranking among the three largest worldwide and largest university based mammal collection, with more than 300,000 cataloged specimens (representing ~1700 species) including thousands of host vouchers linked to parasite records . The MSB Parasite Division has over 30,000 cataloged parasite specimens, including vertebrate helminth and ectoparasite parasite specimens linked to their host vouchers at MSB and other institutions. Highlights of Our Collection • The largest collection of endo- and ectoparasite specimens from high latitude projects, mainly from small mammals, including the lifetime parasite and mammal collections of Robert L and Virginia R. Rausch, the Sevilleta Long-Term Ecological Research Program,and the high latitude mammal and parasite Beringian Coevolution and CIIBA Projects.

Contact: Mariel Campbell, Sara V. Brant, Jon L. Dunnum (campmlc@unm.edu sbrant@unm.edu jldunnum@unm.)

Home Page: http://www.msb.unm.edu/index.html

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

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

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC BY-NC 3.0 (Attribution-Non-Commercial)

Rights Holder: Museum of Southwestern Biology

Access Rights: http://arctosdb.org/home/data/

• 31,704 occurrence
• 21,008 (66%) georeferenced
• 252 (0.79%) with images
• 2,415 (8%) identified to species
• 151 families
• 48 genera
• 74 species
• 74 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)