Tardigrade Reference Center Natural History Collections and Observation Projects


iNaturalist-Observations

iNaturalist Observations

Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 19 December 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File


MCZ-IZ

Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University

The Museum of Comparative Zoology was founded in 1859 on the concept that collections are an integral and fundamental component of zoological research and teaching. This more than 150-year-old commitment remains a strong and proud tradition for the MCZ. The present-day MCZ contains over 21-million specimens in ten research collections which comprise one of the world's richest and most varied resources for studying the diversity of life. The museum serves as the primary repository for zoological specimens collected by past and present Harvard faculty-curators, staff and associates conducting research around the world. As a premier university museum and research institution, the specimens and their related data are available to researchers of the scientific and museum community
Contacts: Linda S. Ford, lford@oeb.harvard.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 20 May 2017
Digital Metadata: EML File


USNM-Invertebrate Zoology

National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 20 May 2017
Digital Metadata: EML File


UCDC-Tardigrada

R. M. Bohart Museum of Entomology

The Bohart's insect collections are a valuable resource for research, and the museum's professional staff conduct research that benefits science and the community. The facilities contains the world's largest collection of tardigrade water bears.

Contacts: Bohart Museum of Entomology, bmuseum@ucdavis.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 96de4d36-8b5e-4ae5-8938-a82b2f2b2d2d
Digital Metadata: EML File


RWMNH-Tardigrades

Robinson-Winter Museum of Natural History Tardigrade Collection

This material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Nos. DEB 0640959, 0640847, and 0641051. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. Field collections of habitats thought to contain tardigrades were made throughout the Long Term Ecological Research Sites (LTER’s) in the United States from 2007 – 2012. Other areas, both nationally and internationally were opportunistically sampled. Samples were processed at Fresno City College with identifications being done by FCC undergraduate students, supervised by Dr. Randy Miller, and Carl Johansson, with DNA being done at BYU on selected samples. Over 15,000 tardigrades were collected and processed during that time. Slides are distributed between FCC’s Robinson – Winter Museum of Natural History, Bohart Museum, and the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences.
Contacts: Carl Johansson, carl.johansson@fresnocitycollege.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 9ddb9f89-cdd5-4048-ac91-aa1cc0049358
Digital Metadata: EML File