Australian National Wildlife Collection Images - 69627

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）馆藏标本的影像资料。该馆是澳大利亚联邦官方公布的陆生（陆地）脊椎动物馆藏机构，馆藏类群涵盖鸟类、哺乳类、爬行类与两栖类。

作为综合性生物档案馆，该馆致力于记录澳大拉西亚地区脊椎动物的物种多样性与地理分布范围，馆藏标本不仅来自澳大利亚本土，还涵盖新几内亚、东南亚乃至全球其他区域的类群。相较于澳大利亚其他陆生脊椎动物馆藏机构，该馆的标本采集与科研项目以全国乃至澳大拉西亚全域为研究范畴。

ANWC的科研方向聚焦澳大利亚野生动物的多样性、演化与保护，核心研究领域包括生物系统学与分类学（即研究生物间演化关系的学科）、生物地理学，同时致力于开发全新方法，以提取并利用酒精浸泡标本中的历史基因组信息。

该馆馆藏标本总数约20万件，涵盖皮肤标本、骨骼标本、鸟卵与鸟巢、酒精浸泡标本以及古生物材料（亚化石）。此外，该馆还保存有超过6万份野生动物录音资料，以及5万份用于遗传分析的低温冷冻组织样本。

这座规模庞大的标本库为野生动物管理、保护及生物学研究提供了核心支撑，同时也是面向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影像资料系列之一。所有影像均来自对实体标本馆藏的持续拍摄，本次影像组的划分仅基于拍摄时间周期，并非对应某一分类单元的全部馆藏标本。

因此，本数据集未必涵盖某一分类单元的全部影像资料，我们推荐使用标本影像文件检索工具，该工具可跨影像数据集检索，以获取特定分类单元的所有相关影像。