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New Brunswick Museum - Amphibians and Reptiles (NBM-AR)

The NBM amphibian and reptile collection was established by Dr. Stanley W. Gorham (1917-1984), who produced the first modern checklist of world amphibians. The collection now includes about 13,500 whole specimens in alcohol, a sizable and rapidly growing frozen tissue collection (-80^oC), a small collection of dried skins, and several hundred dried turtle shells and skeletons. Although mostly of New Brunswick origin, the collection also houses material from Fiji, Spain, Panama, and Russia. We also house the largest collection African amphibians and reptiles in Canada. An associated and significant collection of frog helminths is housed in the general invertebrate collection.

Contacts:

Assistant Curator: Gregory Jongsma, greg.jongsma@nbm-mnb.ca, (506) 271-4468 (ORCID #: 0000-0001-8790-2610)
Curator: Donald McAlpine, Donald.McAlpine@nbm-mnb.ca, (506)343-4432

GBIF Dataset page: http://www.gbif.org/dataset/e9e6abed-f507-497c-aa34-29b05227f4e8

Cite this collection:

New Brunswick Museum Collections (2025). New Brunswick Museum - Amphibians and Reptiles. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/vx22wo accessed via the New Brunswick Museum Collections Portal, biodiverse-nb.ca/portal on 2025-01-22.