virtual museum report 2013
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Virtual Museum Report: 2013
Les Underhill and Megan Loftie-Eaton - Animal Demography Unit - University of Cape Town
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We started 2013 with 29268 records in the Virtual Museum, and ended it with 61517. So the database more than doubled in size, with 32249 records being
added!!
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Two new taxa were added in 2013:
ScorpionMAP was started in March for
scorpions and SpiderMAP was
launched in August for spiders
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Perhaps the surprise of the year was with OdonataMAP, we started 2013 with 2998 records and ended with 7163 records, a growth of 169%, a
doubling plus two-thirds more records than were there at the start of the
year!
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The Virtual Museum also contains the records of specimens in museums for reptiles, frogs and butterflies, and these total half a million records. So the total size of the Virtual Museum is 580 000 records.
The count of records began in June 2010 when the “upload-over-the-internet” system started. Prior to that, records,
only of butterflies and reptiles, were sent by email and uploaded manually at the ADU. 16000 records were uploaded in
this way
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There were milestone events for the Virtual Museum in 2013, and two involved
butterflies. The “butterfly atlas” – the culmination of the Southern African Butterfly
Conservation Assessment (SABCA) – was launched in April
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In October, SABCA morphed into LepiMAP, the Atlas of African
Lepidoptera. Whereas SABCA was limited to butterflies, LepiMAP includes both
moths and butterflies. SABCA was limited to South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland;
LepiMAP’s parish is Africa
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MammalMAP partnered with EWT and SANBI to launch the revision of the Red Data Book for mammals in South
Africa. MammalMAP is responsible for
producing the distribution maps
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In December, Project Painted Lady was launched to highlight the
importance of not overlooking a common and widespread butterfly
species, and to promote the LepiMAP concept
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The instructions for submitting records to the
Virtual Museum are available at http://www.slideshare.net/meganloftieeaton/how-to-submit-records-to-the-animal-demography-units-virtual-museums-28710898