Mammal Endo- and Ectoparasite Collection (NEON-MEEP)

This collection contains endo- and ectoparasites removed from small mammal vouchers during preparation. Specimens are preserved in 80-95% ethanol.

Contacts: NEON Biorepository, biorepo@asu.edu

Collection Manager: Laura Steger, lsteger@asu.edu (ORCID #: 0000-0002-0878-4132)

Mammal Preparator (2022-2024): Rosie Liao, rliao7@asu.edu

Imaging: Joscelyn Wooden, jwooden1@asu.edu (ORCID #: 0009-0007-2982-1987)

Mammal Preparator (2024-2025): Jaime Galvez, jsgalve1@asu.edu

Small mammal box trapping data product: https://data.neonscience.org/data-products/DP1.10072.001

Small mammal sequences DNA barcode data product: https://data.neonscience.org/data-products/DP1.10076.001

Rodent pathogen status, hantavirus data product: https://data.neonscience.org/data-products/DP1.10064.001

Rodent pathogen status, tick-borne data product: https://data.neonscience.org/data-products/DP1.10064.002

Sampling protocol: https://data.neonscience.org/documents/10179/1883155/NEON.DOC.000481vO/bde7eb23-ba45-8afb-05fa-9ca5667c3482

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal

Global Unique Identifier: 3078a3b7-e536-46bc-b7c0-794cd7e8c95c

DwC-Archive Access Point: https://biorepo.neonscience.org/portal/content/dwca/NEON-MEEP_DwC-A.zip

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)

GBIF Dataset page: http://www.gbif.org/dataset/b768078a-6e05-4ade-8b70-13eb3279861b

Cite this collection:

NEON Biorepository Data Portal (2024). NEON Biorepository Mammal Endo- and Ectoparasite Collection. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/dtfteu accessed via the NEON Biorepository Data Portal, https://biorepo.neonscience.org/ on 2024-10-15.

Collection Statistics

695 specimen records
695 (100%) georeferenced
31 (4%) with images (143 total images)
2 (0.29%) identified to species
4 families
2 genera
1 species
1 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

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