CUMV Amphibian and Reptile Collection

The CUMV Amphibian & Reptile Collection became one of the leading university based herp collections in North America during the first half of this century, largely because of the efforts of Professor Albert Hazen Wright and his wife, Anna Allen Wright. The major strengths of the collection, amphibians from the southeastern United States and both reptiles and amphibians from the Northeast, reflects the intensive collection by the Wrights. Much of the material collected by the Wrights in New York and Georgia is not duplicated elsewhere. The last 15 years have been seen important acquisitions for the collection. To complement our traditional strength in North American taxa, we have made a concerted effort to obtain foreign material, especially synoptic series representing geographic areas. Through collecting, exchanges and acquisition of other various collections we now have good representation of Costa Rican viperids, lizards from Western and South Australia, amphibians and reptiles from Puerto Rico, snakes and lizards from Mexico, and a more representative collection of African and European species.

CUMV两栖与爬行动物馆藏（CUMV Amphibian & Reptile Collection）在本世纪上半叶便已跻身北美顶尖高校附属两栖爬行动物标本馆藏行列，这一成就主要归功于阿尔伯特·黑曾·赖特（Albert Hazen Wright）教授与其妻子安娜·艾伦·赖特（Anna Allen Wright）的辛勤耕耘。该馆藏的核心特色品类为美国东南部的两栖类物种，以及美国东北部的两栖类与爬行类物种，这一优势正是赖特夫妇高强度系统性采集工作的直接成果。赖特夫妇在纽约州与佐治亚州采集的大量标本，在其他馆藏中均无复本留存。过去十五年间，该馆藏实现了多项重要的标本入藏。为了进一步完善馆藏体系，在保留北美类群传统优势的基础上扩充境外类群馆藏，我们全力推进境外标本的征集工作，尤其侧重获取覆盖特定地理区域的系统性系列标本。通过自主采集、标本交换以及收购其他馆藏标本，目前本馆已拥有丰富的哥斯达黎加蝰蛇科（Viperidae）物种、西澳大利亚与南澳大利亚的蜥蜴类物种、波多黎各的两栖与爬行类物种、墨西哥的蛇类与蜥蜴类物种，同时非洲与欧洲物种的馆藏也更为全面均衡。