California Academy of Sciences Search the North American herpetology collection. Easy to access, and provides complete locality data. http://www.calacademy.org/research/herpetology/catalog/index.asp Field Museum of Natural History Search the collection for North American specimens. Fairly easy to access; provides locality data to county only, which limits the value of putting the collection online in the first place. http://fm1.fmnh.org/collections/search.cgi?dest=herps Florida State Museum, University of Florida Search for North American specimens. Access to type collection only; specific locality not given. http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/herpetology/Types.htm HerpNET Led by the California Academy of Sciences, HerpNET is a collaborative effort by institutions in the United States, Canada, and Mexico to establish a network between databases of herpetological collections in natural history museums, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF No. 0132303). Currently, 43 institutions are participating in the HerpNET community, with an open-ended invitation to institutions who would like to join. At present, 18 institutions are available for searching on the Data Portal. The mission of HerpNET is to bring the accumulated knowledge from ca. 3.7 million specimens in museum collections into currency for science and society by creating a distributed database with access from various portals. HerpNET will connect large repositories of information with smaller collections that have regional specializations. Similar efforts have been or are being accomplished for other taxa or regions and the herpetological community is poised to make its own contribution to the study of biodiversity. HerpNET will further advance the biodiversity tools available for biodiversity and environmental science, and will educate the next generation of biodiversity scientists. It will bring together scientists from diverse institutions and offer the opportunity to cross train in information technology, natural history collections, systematics and biodiversity science in general. http://www.herpnet.org/ Illinois Natural History Survey Search the North American herpetology collection. Easy to access; provides locality data to county only, which limits the value of putting the collection online in the first place. http://ellipse.inhs.uiuc.edu:591/INHSCollections/herpsearch.html KU Mus Nat Hist Search the KU Museum of Natural History Herpetology Collection. Contains many of the North American specimens collected by Edward H. Taylor, Howard K. Gloyd, Hobart M. Smith, Henry S. Fitch, James C. List, Joseph T. Collins, Robert F. Clarke, and Corson J. Hirschfeld. http://collections.nhm.ku.edu/HerpsWeb/index.jsp MCZ, Harvard University Search the North American herpetology collection. Easy to access, and provides complete locality data. http://www.mcz.harvard.edu/Departments/Herpetology/specimens.htm Museum of Zoology, The University of Michigan Search for North American specimens. http://www.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/rep_amph/collections.html MVZ, Univ Calif Berkeley Affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley, California. Search the North American herpetology collection. Data are refreshed weekly. Easy to access; provides complete locality data. http://mvz.berkeley.edu/Herp_Collection.html Peabody Mus Nat Hist Affiliated with Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Search the North American herpetology collection. Easy to access; provides complete locality data. http://www.peabody.yale.edu/collections/vz/index.html San Diego Natural History Museum Search the type collection only for North American specimens http://www.sdnhm.org/research/herpetology/herptype.html Texas Memorial Museum, University of Texas Search the Texas Natural History Collections for North American specimens. Easy to access; provides locality data to county only, which limits the value of putting the collection online in the first place. http://www.utexas.edu/tmm/tnhc/herps/ University of Nebraska State Museum Search the North American herpetology collection. Easy to access; provides locality data to county only, which limits the value of putting the collection online in the first place. http://129.93.15.191:591/Zoology/Herps/search.htm

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