Digital Imaging of Biological Type Specimens

Häuser, C. L.; Steiner, A.; Holstein J. & Scoble, M. J. 2005: Digital Imaging of Biological Type Specimens - A Manual of Best Practice. ENBI, Stuttgart 2005.

Type specimen databases

Vascular Plant Types Catalog - The New York Botanical Garden

http://sciweb.nybg.org/science2/hcol/vasc/index.asp

C. 92,000 type specimen

Old address: http://www.nybg.org/bsci/hcol/vasc/

Digital specimen images at the Herbarium Berolinense - Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem

http://ww2.bgbm.org/herbarium/

Type Specimens In The University Of Florida Herbarium - University of Florida Herbarium / Florida Museum of Natural History

http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/herbarium/types/

Linnean types, Linnean herbarium - Swedish Museum of Natural History

http://linnaeus.nrm.se/botany/fbo/types.html.en

Collections Database - Nationaal Herbarium Nederland

http://www.nationaalherbarium.nl/virtual/

Digital images of Joseph F. Rock's Type Specimen Collections - Harvard University Herbaria

http://www.huh.harvard.edu/databases/cms/rock-types.html

Botanical Type Specimen Register - Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

http://ravenel.si.edu/botany/types/

MCZ Type Database @ Harvard Entomology - Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University

http://insects.oeb.harvard.edu/mcz/

Type Specimens of Japanese Ants at MCZ, Harvard University

http://ant.edb.miyakyo-u.ac.jp/MCZ/

Images of NZ Lepidoptera type specimens - Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research

http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/biodiversity/invertebratesprog/lepidoptera/

Department of Ichthyology Primary Types Imagebase - California Academy of Sciences

http://www.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/Types/about_types.html

Bird collection - Zoological Museum Amsterdam

http://ip30.eti.uva.nl/zma3d/

Arnica Type Specimens - Herbarium of California State University Stanislaus

http://arnica.csustan.edu/herbarium/arnica.asp

Type Specimen Database - American Entomological Institute

http://aei.tamu.edu/public/taxon_names

Makino Herbarium Type Specimen Image Database - Makino Herbarium, Tokyo Metropolitan University

http://taxa.soken.ac.jp/MakinoDB/makino/html_e/

Entomology Primary Types Database - California Academy of Sciences, Entomology Department

http://www.calacademy.org/research/entomology/typesdb/default.asp

Botany Type Specimen Collection - San Diego Natural History Museum

http://www.sdnhm.org/research/botany/searchtypes.html

Botanical Type Specimens of the CAS and DS Herbaria - California Academy of Sciences, Botany

http://www.calacademy.org/research/Botany/bottypes.html

Other specimen databases containing type specimens

Microfossil Collection - University of California Museum of Paleontology

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/collections/micro.html

Including the Small Catalog of Foraminifera Type Specimens

Digitized Orthoptera Specimens Access (DORSA)

2,229 type specimens are documented by approx. 25000 images

Index of Botanical Specimens - Harvard University Herbaria

http://cms.huh.harvard.edu/databases/specimen_index.html