Te Papa’s Natural Environment team have revamped their webpages. You can access them here.
Collection highlights online include:
North Island Brown Kiwi, Apteryx mantelli, New Zealand. Te Papa
The following links will take you to more information on specific collections:
- Birds
- Crustacea (crabs, shrimps, lobsters, etc.)
- Fish
- Fossil vertebrates
- Insects and spiders
- Marine mammals (whales, dolphins, seals)
- Molluscs (snails, shellfish, squid, etc.)
- Plants
Let us know below what additional information you would like to see online about Te Papa’s collections of animals and plants.
2 Comments
good to see so many of the molluscs online!
yes, Bruce is leading the way with the molluscs, and it means that good distribution maps are already available for many molluscs (e.g., http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/Taxon.aspx?irn=10348). I would like to see all of the databased Natural Environment specimens available through Collections Online in the medium term. There’s a few technical issues to sort first. In the mean time, Te Papa’s databased plant specimens are alternatively available via the Virtual Herbarium (http://www.virtualherbarium.org.nz) which collates the databased collections of New Zealand’s herbaria. It is also worth noting that Te Papa still has a LOT of databasing of plant and animal specimens to do.