Global Genome Biodiversity Network (GGBN)

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Acariformes

Animalia > Arthropoda > Arachnida

tissue
specimen

Identification

Accepted Name	Acariformes
Taxonomy	Animalia > Arthropoda > Arachnida
Name According to	Catalogue of Life
Original Name	Acariformes or Parasitiformes
Taxonomy Original Name	Animalia > Arthropoda > Arachnida
Status Original Name	unclear species
Resolving State	resolved on superorder level

Gathering Event

Country

United States (Central or North America)

Locality

St. Matthew Isl.

Biotope

splash zone rocks

Collector(s)

Collector(s): D. S. Sikes, C. E. Bickford; Preparator(s): Trista Saunders

Collector's number

s.n.

Collection Date

2012-07-31

Collecting Source

wild

Tissue

Catalog Number

UAM:Ento:245235

Collection Code

Ento

Institution Code

UAM

Institution Full Name

Arctos/University of Alaska Museum of the North

Record Basis

MaterialSample

Sample Type

tissue

Establishment Means

wild caught

Type Status

referral of Acari in Sikes et al. 2016

Preparation

Type

whole organism (70% ethanol)

Staff

Jayce Williamson

Permits

Status: Permit not available

Unknown permit type

Dataset Description

University of Alaska Museum (UAM) Insect specimens (Arctos) for GGBN
Description	The UAM Insect collection is the northern-most facility of its kind in the United States. 98.5% of our records are from Alaska. Although a young collection (begun in 2000), we have recently surpassed 280,000 records representing over 1.8 million specimens (as of Jan 2018), making this collection among the top ten largest in the US in entomology based on data served to iDigBio. Over 99% of these records have been georeferenced. Over 75% of the pinned collection has been databased; approximately 10% of the wet collection has been databased. At least one specimen of every lowest identification, in both the pinned and wet collections, has been databased so we have a complete online taxon inventory of the collection. 161,627 specimens have been identified to the species level - these represent 3,264 species. Coleoptera, Araneae, Odonata, and Hymenoptera are the most well-curated groups. 70,634 of these specimen records have been cited or otherwise used in 64 peer-reviewed publications. Please use this DOI to cite this collection / dataset: http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7299/X75D8S0H
Rights	To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
Citation	University of Alaska Museum Insect Collection (UAM), University of Alaska Fairbanks. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7299/X75D8S0H
Contacts
Curator of Insects
Derek Sikes, dssikes@alaska.edu
Genomic Resources Collection Manager
Kyndall Hildebrandt, kbhildebrandt@alaska.edu , 907 Yukon Drive, AK US, 99775-6960, (907) 474-6914
Information Architect
John Wieczorek, gtuco.btuco@gmail.com , Bariloche, Río Negro AR, 8401
Arctos Database Programmer
Dusty McDonald, dustymc@gmail.com