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Australian National Wildlife Collection Images - 66525

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
CSIRO
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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.

As 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.

The 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.
Lineage: 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.

As 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.

Available: 2025-09-09

Data time period: 2025-06-24 to ..

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ANWC | Australian National Wildlife Collection | Biological Sciences | Biogeography and Phylogeography | Collections | Conservation and Biodiversity | Environmental Sciences | Ecology | Environmental Management | Evolutionary Biology | Evolutionary Biology Not Elsewhere Classified | NRCA | National Research Collections Australia | Speciation and Extinction | Terrestrial Ecology | Wildlife and Habitat Management | biogeography | digitisation | evolution | holotype | image | nomenclature | phylogeny | phylogeography | systematics | taxonomy | type |

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