Texas Tech University - Invertebrate Zoology (TTU-TTU-Z)

The Invertebrate Zoology collection (TTU-Z) of the Museum of Texas Tech University is international in scope with an emphasis on arthropods from semi-arid and arid lands, especially from North America. The collection consists primarily of insects (including an extensive collection of ants), medical/veterinary specimens (endo- and ectoparasites), and arachnids. The pinned collection contains over 3,200 genera and 7,500 identified species. The collection is estimated to hold about 4.6 million specimens including pinned insects, arachnids preserved in ethanol, microscope slides (medical/veterinary importance and mites), and bulk samples. There are currently slightly more than 800 type specimens (mostly paratypes) in the collection.

Contact: Jennifer C. Girón (jennifer.giron@ttu.edu)

Home Page: https://www.depts.ttu.edu/nsrl/collections/Invertebrate_Zoology/index.php

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal

Global Unique Identifier: d4e788b4-5d52-47a3-873e-227c6df49c7b

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: Museum of Texas Tech University

Access Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)

• 180,111 occurrence
• 147,658 (82%) georeferenced
• 25,962 (14%) with images
• 49,937 (28%) identified to species
• 592 families
• 1,627 genera
• 3,461 species
• 3,507 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)