The Herptile (reptiles and amphibians) Collection of the University Museum of Bergen

Occurrence Specimen
Latest version published by University of Bergen on Dec 19, 2025 University of Bergen
Publication date:
19 December 2025
Published by:
University of Bergen
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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Description

Our collections of amphibians and reptiles at the University Museum of Bergen, Norway are relatively limited in size: in total about 1200 specimens. Much of this material are whole animals preserved in ethanol. Even if the collection contains numerous species from exotic parts of the world, our main targets today are the limited number of species found in Norwegian fauna.

Today there is no active collecting of herptiles at the University Museum and new material are mainly animals that have been found dead for various reasons.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 1,552 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Occurrence (core)
1552
MeasurementOrFacts 
248

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Versions

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Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Bergen. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: de3dee7c-fe57-417b-bd64-23ec1c1b89da.  University of Bergen publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Norway.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

Terje Lislevand
  • Point Of Contact
The University Museum of Bergen, University of Bergen
5007 Bergen
Vestland
NO
Terje LIslevand
  • Metadata Provider
Terje Lislevand
  • Point Of Contact
  • Professor, Curator
The University Museum of Bergen, University of Bergen
5007 Bergen
Vestland
NO
Vidar Bakken
  • User
GBIF Norway

Geographic Coverage

N/A

Bounding Coordinates South West [58.065, 4.81], North East [69.727, 30.044]

Additional Metadata