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[MCZ Herp A-128608] Hyla cinerea cinerea - Incorrect locality for MCZ herp A-128608 #21

Closed ptitle closed 9 years ago

ptitle commented 10 years ago

This record has incorrect locality data. From the MCZ webpage for this record, I can click to see a scan of the ledger where the record was handwritten, and the locality is NOT the same as the one on the MCZ website. The handwritten one is more appropriate.

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Term Value
InstitutionID b4640710-8e03-11d8-b956-b8a03c50a862
InstitutionCode MCZ
CollectionCode Herp
OwnerInstitutionCode Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
BasisOfRecord PreservedSpecimen
OccurrenceID MCZ:Herp:A-128608
CatalogNumber A-128608
RecordedBy Arthur Loveridge
IndividualCount 1
Preparations whole animal (ethanol)
Disposition unknown
OtherCatalogNumbers muse location number=ZA20001; previous number=MCZ-A-21101-05
AssociatedMedia http://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:Herp:A-128608
EventDate 1933-04-01
StartDayOfYear 0
VerbatimEventDate 0/4/1933-0/4/1933
HigherGeography Africa, Kenya, Coast, Taita-Taveta
Continent Africa
Country Kenya
StateProvince Coast
County Taita-Taveta
Locality Mt Mbololo, Taita Mtns, Kenya
VerbatimLatitude -3.283333333d
VerbatimLongitude 38.46666667d
VerbatimCoordinateSystem decimal degrees
DecimalLatitude -3.283333333
DecimalLongitude 38.46666667
GeodeticDatum WGS84
CoordinateUncertaintyInMeters 15166.457856
CoordinatePrecision 15166.457856
GeoreferencedBy R. Askevold (CAS)
GeoreferenceProtocol MaNIS/HerpNET/ORNIS Georeferencing Guidelines
GeoreferenceSources NIMA gazetteer; 1:1000000 USGS Digital Atlas of Africa, 2002; Macmillian's Kenya Traveller's Map, 3rd ed, 1993, 1:1,750,000; and Survey of Kenya, SK 57 Kenya 1:1,000,000 (special), south sheet, first edition, 1971.
GeoreferenceRemarks Latitude/longitude is of NIMA location of Mbololo Hill near the Taita Hills, extent is 7.8 miles, radius of extent of hill from NIMA point.
IdentifiedBy Catalog
IdentificationVerificationStatus unverified
IdentificationRemarks OCE 28.vii.97 by LAThomas; PREV#: Duplicate of MCZ-A-21101-05
ScientificName Hyla cinerea cinerea
HigherClassification Animalia Chordata Amphibia Lissamphibia Anura Bufonoidea Hylidae Hyla cinerea cinerea
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Amphibia
Order Anura
Family Hylidae
Genus Hyla
SpecificEpithet cinerea
InfraspecificEpithet cinerea
ScientificNameAuthorship (Schneider, 1799)
NomenclaturalCode ICZN
heliumcell commented 9 years ago

The Collection is looking at this.

heliumcell commented 9 years ago

Locality fixed.