Data providing member | Joined: June 22, 2017
Centro de Ornitología y Biodiversidad
Online since: August 17, 2018
Last update: January 29, 2025

Herpetological Collection of CORBIDI

This collection comprises specimen vouchers and tissue samples of most of the peruvian herpetofauna species: 436 species of amphibians and 337 species of reptiles, which comprises 74% of the amphibian and 69% of the reptile diversity, this according to the current diversity recorded for Peru. This is expresed in the more than 18,000 voucher specimens we store, and the more than 6,200 tissue samples, numbers that are growing constantly.

Contacts

Sample Requests
Pablo Venegas
pvenegas@corbidi.org
Santa Rita 105
15023 Lima
Peru

Institution Type

Conservation, Repository, Research institute

Collection Type

Preserved, Taxonomic, Tissue

Collection Size

18000 preserved specimens, 6200 tissue samples

Collection Coverage

Kingdoms: Animalia
Taxa: Amphibia, Reptilia

Curation details

Primary Purpose: Research
Development Status: Active growth
Preservation methods: Fluid-preserved
Known to contain types: Yes

McGinley Conservation statuses

Level 4: Material identified to species level but not incorporated into main collection (e.g., material identified for biodiversity or ecological studies, surveys, etc.).
Level 5: Identified and integrated material which is inadequately curated.
Date: 2017-09-13

Institution Codes

Acronym: CORBIDI
CITES: not registered