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Museo Nacional de Costa Rica, observation-based (CR)

Founded in 1887. The former INB collections are still housed in the same building in Santo Domingo de Heredia where they have been for the last few years (see INB for the exact location), but are now administered by the Museo Nacional. Specimens from INB should now be cited as CR. A database and type photographs are available here: http://ecobiosis.museocostarica.go.cr/especimenes/Buscador.aspx
Contacts: Armando Estrada, director, aestrada@museocostarica.go.cr
Homepage: http://ecobiosis.museocostarica.go.cr/especimenes/Buscador.aspx?Tipo=coleccion
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 20 December 2018
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Collection Statistics
  • 2,454 specimen records
  • 2,454 (100%) georeferenced
  • 1,882 (77%) identified to species
  • 59 families
  • 139 genera
  • 140 species
  • 140 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics