Austin Peay State University Amphibian and Reptile Specimens (Arctos)

APSU’s amphibian and reptile collection includes over 35,300 vouchers (alcohol specimens, photographs, and audio recordings) documenting over 20,000 records of salamanders, frogs and toads, lizards, snakes, and turtles primarily from Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Arkansas, but also a small number from other US states, the Philippines, Mexico, and Canada. More than half of the holdings include alcohol specimens that made up the Memphis State University collection, which was transferred to Austin Peay in 1999. The collection is the largest of its kind in Tennessee and serves as the main repository of herptile data for the state. Several thousands of the vouchers have been referenced in peer-reviewed scientific publications.