Australian National Wildlife Collection Images - 70676

This collection is a set of images of specimens held at the Australian National Wildlife Collection (ANWC). The ANWC is the official, gazetted, Commonwealth collection of Australia's terrestrial (land) vertebrates and covers birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians. \n\nAs a comprehensive biological archive, it strives to document Australasia’s vertebrate biodiversity across species and their geographical ranges, and includes specimens from New Guinea and South-East Asia, as well as other parts of the world. The ANWC differs from other Australian terrestrial vertebrate collections in having a national – and indeed Australasian regional -  focus for its collection and research programs. ANWC research addresses the diversity, evolution, and conservation of Australia's wildlife, focussing on its systematics and taxonomy (study of evolutionary relationships among organisms) and biogeography, as well as on developing novel methods for unlocking and using historical genomes from specimens in spirit. \n\nThe collection comprises approximately 200,000 specimens, including skins, skeletons, bird eggs and nests, specimens in spirit, and paleontological material (subfossils).  The ANWC also holds over 60,000 wildlife sound recordings and 50,000 cryofrozen tissue samples for genetic analysis. This extensive repository supports vital work in wildlife management, conservation and biological research, whilst serving as a valuable resource for public information and scientific study.\nLineage: This dataset is one of a series holding images from the Australian National Wildlife Collection. These images were taken through ongoing imaging of the physical specimen collection, and this grouping of images is arbitrary based on the time period the images were taken, it is not a comprehensive list of all the specimens available in a taxon.\n\nAs such, this dataset may not include all images from a particular taxon and we recommend the specimen image file search which can be used to search across the image datasets to find all images from a specific taxon.

本数据集收录澳大利亚国家野生动物标本馆（Australian National Wildlife Collection, ANWC）所藏标本的图像。ANWC是澳大利亚官方正式公布的联邦级陆生脊椎动物标本馆藏机构，馆藏涵盖鸟类、哺乳类、爬行类与两栖类动物标本。

作为综合性生物档案库，该馆藏旨在记录澳大拉西亚地区各物种脊椎动物的生物多样性及其地理分布范围，馆藏标本来源涵盖新几内亚、东南亚以及世界其他地区。与澳大利亚其他陆生脊椎动物馆藏不同，ANWC的标本采集与研究工作以全国性乃至澳大拉西亚区域性为核心定位。ANWC的研究方向聚焦于澳大利亚野生动物的多样性、演化与保护，重点开展系统学与分类学（研究生物间演化关系的学科）及生物地理学相关研究，同时致力于开发新型方法，以提取并利用浸制标本中的历史基因组信息。

该馆藏总计约20万件标本，涵盖皮肤标本、骨骼标本、鸟卵与鸟巢标本、浸制标本以及古生物材料（亚化石）。此外，ANWC还藏有超过6万份野生动物录音素材与5万份用于遗传分析的冷冻组织样本。这一庞大的标本库为野生动物管理、保护及生物学研究提供了关键支撑，同时也是公众科普与科学研究的宝贵资源。

数据集谱系说明：本数据集为澳大利亚国家野生动物标本馆（ANWC）标本图像系列之一。这批图像源自对实体标本馆藏的持续性拍摄工作，本次图像分组仅依据拍摄时间进行随机划分，并非对应某一分类群所有馆藏标本的完整图像集合。

因此，本数据集未必涵盖某一分类群的全部图像，建议使用标本图像文件检索工具，该工具可跨图像数据集搜索，获取特定分类群的所有相关图像。