Computerization of Newly Acquired Tropical and Subtropical Mollusk Collections at the Florida Museum of Natural History

在Paulay和Thompson博士的指导下，佛罗里达自然历史博物馆(佛罗里达大学)获得了一笔赠款，用于管理、建立数据库，并在网上提供过去十年收到的几个重要的软体动物收藏品。这些藏品包括与策展和研究人员有关的研究藏品，以及迈阿密大学和杜兰大学赠送的两件主要藏品。这些收藏已经成为100种出版物的来源，拥有500种主要类型，受到研究和保护社区以及业余贝壳爱好者的需求。目前，FMNH拥有美国第七大软体动物收藏，在拟议的项目完成后，估计将增长到420,000个编目的拍品，所有这些都可以在网上获得。此外，还将对过去基于FLMNH的调查的所有站点数据进行地理参考，因此至少有150,000个在线可用地块将具有相关的坐标数据。该收藏已经是世界上最大的新热带和东南亚陆地蜗牛以及热带西大西洋软体动物之一。拟议的补充内容与现有收集的区域动物以及新热带、东南亚和热带岛屿陆地蜗牛以及与珊瑚礁相关的软体动物的重点相同。该项目的目标是对所获得的藏品进行适当的存储、地理参考和数据库，以确保它们的保存、可获得性和实用性。将对已进入但仍无法进入工作人员的大约92,300个标本批(每个标本由一到多个标本组成)进行管理。还将对正在进行的生物多样性清单和捐赠进行管理。每一批都将被拆开，存放在档案容器中，并将相关数据输入收集数据库，包括收集地点的坐标，如果标本标签上没有注明，将进行查找。将生成样本标签，并将每个批次存放在已形成的集合中。与每个地段有关的数据也将通过因特网、外国语协会的网站以及“物种分析家”和“生命测绘者”等国际网络提供。这个项目的最大意义将是为软体动物开发世界上最大的生物多样性资源之一，软体动物是仅次于节肢动物的第二大动物门。该项目的直接影响将是世界第二大可上网软体动物数据库的在线记录增加29%，以及15万个地理参考地块的可获得性，这可能是最大的软体动物地理参考资源。该项目将大大增加FLMNH已经拥有的大量软体动物的规模、可获得性和实用性。中华软体动物博物馆将成为世界上最大的大学软体动物馆藏之一，对新获得的馆藏的支持将吸引和培训学生进行系统的软体动物学和生物多样性研究。拟议的项目将尽可能让学生担任策展助理，这将使学生有机会在赚取工资的同时从事策展和系统工作，并使他们接触到博物馆一个活跃的研究小组的工作。

A grant has been awarded to the Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH, University of Florida) under the direction of Drs. Paulay and Thompson to curate, database, and make available online several important mollusk collections received in the past decade. These include the research collection associated with the curatorial and research staff as well two major relinquished collections from the University of Miami and Tulane University. These collections have been the source of 100 publications, hold 500 primary types, and are in demand by the research and conservation communities as well as by amateur shell enthusiasts. Currently FLMNH has the 7th largest mollusk collection in the US and after the completion of the proposed project will grow to an estimated 420,000 catalogued lots, all available online. In addition, all station data from past FLMNH-based surveys will also be georeferenced, so that at least 150,000 of the lots available online will have associated coordinate data. The collection is already among the largest in the world for Neotropical and Southeast Asian land snails and tropical west Atlantic mollusks. The proposed additions share the emphasis of the existing collection on the regional fauna, as well as Neotropical, Southeast Asian and tropical insular land snails, and reef-associated mollusks. The goals of this project are to properly house, georeference and database the acquired collections to assure their conservation, availability and utility. Approximately 92,300 specimen lots (each comprised of one to many specimens), that have been accessioned but have remained inaccessible to workers, will be curated. Ongoing biodiversity inventories and donations will also be curated. Each lot will be unpacked, housed in archival containers and associated data entered into the collection database, including coordinates of collecting locality, which will be looked up if not indicated on the specimen label. Specimen labels will be generated and each lot housed in the formed collection. Data associated with each lot will also be made available over the internet through FLMNH's web site as well as through international networks such as "The Species Analyst" and "Life Mapper". The greatest significance of this project will be the development of one of the largest biodiversity resources in the world for the Mollusca, the second largest phylum of animals after the Arthropoda. The immediate impact of this project will be a 29% increase in online records at the second largest internet-accessible mollusk database in the world, together with the availability of 150,000 georeferenced lots, potentially the largest georeferenced resource on mollusks. The project will substantially increase the size, availability and utility of FLMNH's already large mollusk holdings. The FLMNH Malacology will become one the largest university-based mollusk collection in the world and the support for curation of the newly acquired collection will act to both attract and train students in systematic malacology and biodiversity studies. The proposed project will involve students to as great an extent as possible as Curatorial Assistants which will afford students the opportunity to engage in curatorial and systematic work while earning a salary, and also exposes them to the workings of an active research group at the museum.