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Mammal Endo- and Ectoparasite Collection (NEON-MEEP)

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

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
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)
Cite this collection:
NEON Biorepository Data Portal (2025). 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 2025-03-30.
Collection Statistics
  • 741 specimen records
  • 742 (100%) georeferenced
  • 117 (16%) with images (475 total images)
  • 3 (0.4%) identified to species
  • 4 families
  • 2 genera
  • 2 species
  • 2 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
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