Australian National Wildlife Collection Images - 66623

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.

本数据集为澳大利亚国家野生动物标本馆（Australian National Wildlife Collection, ANWC）所藏标本的图像集合。该馆是澳大利亚联邦官方公告在册的陆生（陆地）脊椎动物标本馆藏机构，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库，该馆致力于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，馆藏标本同时来自新几内亚、东南亚及世界其他地区。与澳大利亚其他陆生脊椎动物标本馆藏机构不同，ANWC的馆藏与研究项目以全国乃至澳大拉西亚区域为核心导向。ANWC的研究聚焦澳大利亚野生动物的多样性、演化与保护，核心方向包括生物系统学与分类学（研究生物间演化亲缘关系的学科）、生物地理学，同时开发全新方法以提取并利用浸泡标本中的历史基因组信息。

该馆藏共计约20万件标本，涵盖皮肤标本、骨骼标本、鸟卵与鸟巢标本、浸泡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资料与5万份用于遗传分析的冷冻组织样本。这座规模庞大的馆藏库为野生动物管理、保护及生物学研究提供核心支撑，同时也是公众科普与科学研究的宝贵资源。

数据集谱系说明：本数据集为澳大利亚国家野生动物标本馆图像系列馆藏之一。本数据集的图像均来自对实体标本馆藏的持续性影像采集，该图像分组仅依据拍摄时间进行随机划分，并非某一分类单元下所有可获取标本的完整列表。

因此，本数据集可能未涵盖某一分类单元的全部图像，我们建议使用标本图像文件检索工具，该工具可跨图像数据集检索特定分类单元的所有相关图像。