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Keys to African Solanum

Knapp S. Vorontsova MS, Särkinen T. (2019) Dichotomous keys to the species of Solanum L. (Solanaceae) in continental Africa, Madagascar (incl. the islands of Réunion, the...
 Sandra Knapp Collections Open Data Commons Attribution License

Eric Robinson Collection of Ostracoda and Foraminifera

In 2006, Eric Robinson, formerly of University College London, donated his ostracod collection to the Natural History Museum. This collection contains slides of named taxa and...
 Giles Miller Collections License not specified

Notes from Nature crowd sourcing raw data set

Raw transcription data from the Notes from Nature crowd sourcing site for the ornithology collections of the NHM
 Natural History Museum License not specified

ABYSSLINE

Specimen data from the ABYSSLINE project for the Natural History Museum biodiversity survey of the UK-1 polymetallic nodule exploration claim zone, central Pacific abyss.
 Adrian Glover Research CC-BY-NC-4.0

HyPhas

Hymenoptera parasites of the Phasmida (stick insects)
 Edward Baker Research CC-BY-4.0

Henry Buckley Collection of Planktonic Foraminifera

The Henry Buckley Collection of Planktonic Foraminifera at the Natural History Museum in London (NHMUK) consists of 1,665 single-taxon slides housing almost 24,000 individuals...
 Marina Costa Rillo Research Creative Commons Attribution

Psylloidea phylogenomics

Resolving the psyllid tree of life and understanding evolutionary relationships in the superfamily Psylloidea is challenging due to the lack of clear morphological...
 Diana Percy Research Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL)

Chagos Coral Collection at the NHM London

The Natural History Museum, London, holds a collection of >6000 specimens of dry-preserved hard (mainly scleractinian) corals from the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean...
 Andrew Cabrinovic; Miranda Lowe; Kenneth Johnson; Natalina Bonassera; Mia Williams; Charles Sheppard Collections Creative Commons Attribution

Supplementary Material: Surface Sediment Samples From Early Age of Seafloor E...

Ocean-floor sediment samples collected up to 150 years ago represent an important historical archive to benchmark global changes in the seafloor environment, such as species'...
 Marina Costa Rillo; Michal Kucera; Thomas Ezard; Giles Miller Research Creative Commons Attribution

Baleen stable isotope data

This dataset contains d13C and d15N stable isotope data from northern hemisphere rorqual whale (Balaenoptera) baleen taken from our collections. This includes data from the...
 Clive N. Trueman; Andrew Jackson; Katharyn S Chadwick; Ellen J Coombs et al. Research Creative Commons Attribution

Platypleurini phylogeny

Data Supporting: Out of Africa? A dated molecular phylogeny of the cicada tribe Platypleurini Schmidt (Hemiptera: Cicadidae), with a focus on African genera and the genus...
 Benjamin Price; David C Marshall; Nigel P Barker; Chris Simon; Martin H Villet Research Creative Commons CCZero

The Charles Lyell fossil collection at the Natural History Museum

Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875) is one of the most important geologists of all time and was the pioneer of the principle of uniformitarianism. He was able to see that the present...
 Consuelo Sendino Collections Creative Commons Attribution

Lyell Collection - Types and figured and cited specimens

Types and cited specimens included in the Fossil Lyell Collection (group; type status; identification; and reference).
 Consuelo Sendino Collections Creative Commons Attribution

The Fossil Historical Collections

There are three historical collections in the Palaeontology which have great importance for the history of the NHM. These are the Sloane, König and Pennant Collections. Over 100...
 Consuelo Sendino Collections Creative Commons Attribution

3D Cetacean Scanning

3D scans of ten Cetacean skulls collected between 1873 and 2007. The dataset contains both baleen and toothed whales including Physeter macrocephalus (a sperm whale) the largest...
 Richard C Sabin; Kaitlyn Burton; Natalie Cooper; Anjali Goswami Collections Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any)

Al Sabouni et al Reproducibility

The data required to run the analyses in Al Sabouni et al "Reproducibility of species recognition in modern planktonic foraminifera and its implications for measures of...
 Isabel Fenton Research Open Data Commons Attribution License

Insect Pollinators Archive

An up to date dataset of the Insect Pollinators Initiative, A multi-institution initiative with the NHM, BBSRC and The University of Edinburgh. The archive is held at the...
 Graham N Stone; Alfried Vogler; Adam Vanbergen; Jacqueline Mackenzie-Dodds Research Creative Commons Attribution

Xenophyophores

Xenophyophores, giant foraminifera, are distinctive members of the deep-sea megafauna that accumulate large masses of waste material (‘stercomare’) within their agglutinated...
 Andrew Gooday; Dan Sykes; Adrian Glover Collections License not specified

Fenton et al Reproducibility

The data required to run the analyses in Fenton et al "Factors affecting consistency and accuracy in identifying modern macroperforate planktonic foraminifera".
Isabel Fenton Research Open Data Commons Attribution License

Maddock_montanus

Hypogeophis DNA alignments
 Simon Maddock; Mark Wilkinson; David J Gower Research License not specified