Museum of Northern Arizona Invertebrate Collections (MNA-INV)

BIOMNA is a specimen-based information management archive of macroinvertebrates from the entomologically poorly-known Colorado River basin (CRB). In part, the life work of Dr. Larry Stevens (Museum of Northern Arizona Biology Curator), this database provides information on all taxa in the Museum of Northern Arizona’s invertebrate collections, as well as Dr. Stevens’ observations and notes from data-mining efforts in multiple other collections. This database was designed by Jeri D. Ledbetter and Benjamin Brandt. This database is intended to be used by any researcher interested in increasing knowledge about invertebrate biology, ecology, biogeography, or conservation in the CRB. This database is not intended to be used for commercial exploitation. However, while every effort will be made to provide information readily to researchers, it also is important to note that museums like the private, non-profit MNA struggle mightily to remain solvent, and that it becomes culturally critical to support museum collections.

Contact: Larry Stevens (farvana@aol.com)

Home Page: http://biomna.org/index.php

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

Digital Metadata: EML File

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

Rights Holder: MNA

• 116,687 occurrence
• 113,196 (97%) georeferenced
• 1,235 (1%) with images
• 45,692 (39%) identified to species
• 392 families
• 1,677 genera
• 3,384 species
• 3,623 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)