Australian National Wildlife Collection Images - 69114

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收藏馆（Australian National Wildlife Collection, ANWC）馆藏标本的影像资料。该馆是澳大利亚官方公告设立的联邦级陆生脊椎动物标本馆藏机构，涵盖鸟类、哺乳类、爬行类与两栖类标本。

作为综合性生物档案库，该馆致力于记录澳大拉西亚地区各物种及其地理分布范围内的脊椎动物生物多样性，馆藏标本来源涵盖新几内亚、东南亚乃至全球其他地区。与澳大利亚其他陆生脊椎动物馆藏机构不同，ANWC的标本采集与研究计划以全国乃至澳大拉西亚区域为核心定位。其研究围绕澳大利亚野生动物的多样性、演化与保护展开，重点聚焦类群系统学与分类学（即研究生物间演化亲缘关系的学科）、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还保存有超过6万份野生动物录音资料与5万份用于遗传分析的超低温冷冻组织样本。这座规模宏大的标本库为野生动物管理、保护与生物学研究提供了核心支撑，同时也是公众科普与科学研究的宝贵资源。

数据集谱系：本数据集是澳大利亚国家野生动物收藏馆标本影像系列之一。所有影像均来自对实体标本馆藏的持续性拍摄，本次影像组的划分仅以拍摄时间周期为依据，并非某一分类单元下所有馆藏标本的完整影像列表。

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搜索，以获取特定分类单元的所有相关影像。