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Unlocking the Entomological Collection of the Natural History Museum of Maputo, Mozambique

BACKGROUND: The collections of the Natural History Museum of Maputo have a crucial role in the safeguarding of Mozambique's biodiversity, representing an important repository of data and materials regarding the natural heritage of the country. In this paper, a dataset is described, based on the...

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Autores principales: Sandramo, Domingos, Nicosia, Enrico, Cianciullo, Silvio, Muatinte, Bernardo, Guissamulo, Almeida
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Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8081716/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33935558
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e64461
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author Sandramo, Domingos
Nicosia, Enrico
Cianciullo, Silvio
Muatinte, Bernardo
Guissamulo, Almeida
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Muatinte, Bernardo
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description BACKGROUND: The collections of the Natural History Museum of Maputo have a crucial role in the safeguarding of Mozambique's biodiversity, representing an important repository of data and materials regarding the natural heritage of the country. In this paper, a dataset is described, based on the Museum’s Entomological Collection recording 409 species belonging to seven orders and 48 families. Each specimen’s available data, such as geographical coordinates and taxonomic information, have been digitised to build the dataset. The specimens included in the dataset were obtained between 1914–2018 by collectors and researchers from the Natural History Museum of Maputo (once known as “Museu Alváro de Castro”) in all the country’s provinces, with the exception of Cabo Delgado Province. NEW INFORMATION: This paper adds data to the Biodiversity Network of Mozambique and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, within the objectives of the SECOSUD II Project and the Biodiversity Information for Development Programme. The aforementioned insect dataset is available on the GBIF Engine data portal (https://doi.org/10.15468/j8ikhb). Data were also shared on the Mozambican national portal of biodiversity data BioNoMo (https://bionomo.openscidata.org), developed by SECOSUD II Project.
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spelling pubmed-80817162021-04-30 Unlocking the Entomological Collection of the Natural History Museum of Maputo, Mozambique Sandramo, Domingos Nicosia, Enrico Cianciullo, Silvio Muatinte, Bernardo Guissamulo, Almeida Biodivers Data J Data Paper (Biosciences) BACKGROUND: The collections of the Natural History Museum of Maputo have a crucial role in the safeguarding of Mozambique's biodiversity, representing an important repository of data and materials regarding the natural heritage of the country. In this paper, a dataset is described, based on the Museum’s Entomological Collection recording 409 species belonging to seven orders and 48 families. Each specimen’s available data, such as geographical coordinates and taxonomic information, have been digitised to build the dataset. The specimens included in the dataset were obtained between 1914–2018 by collectors and researchers from the Natural History Museum of Maputo (once known as “Museu Alváro de Castro”) in all the country’s provinces, with the exception of Cabo Delgado Province. NEW INFORMATION: This paper adds data to the Biodiversity Network of Mozambique and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, within the objectives of the SECOSUD II Project and the Biodiversity Information for Development Programme. The aforementioned insect dataset is available on the GBIF Engine data portal (https://doi.org/10.15468/j8ikhb). Data were also shared on the Mozambican national portal of biodiversity data BioNoMo (https://bionomo.openscidata.org), developed by SECOSUD II Project. Pensoft Publishers 2021-04-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8081716/ /pubmed/33935558 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e64461 Text en Domingos Sandramo, Enrico Nicosia, Silvio Cianciullo, Bernardo Muatinte, Almeida Guissamulo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Cianciullo, Silvio
Muatinte, Bernardo
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Unlocking the Entomological Collection of the Natural History Museum of Maputo, Mozambique
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title_full Unlocking the Entomological Collection of the Natural History Museum of Maputo, Mozambique
title_fullStr Unlocking the Entomological Collection of the Natural History Museum of Maputo, Mozambique
title_full_unstemmed Unlocking the Entomological Collection of the Natural History Museum of Maputo, Mozambique
title_short Unlocking the Entomological Collection of the Natural History Museum of Maputo, Mozambique
title_sort unlocking the entomological collection of the natural history museum of maputo, mozambique
topic Data Paper (Biosciences)
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8081716/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33935558
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e64461
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