HERPETOLOGY COLLECTION
Acronym: HCLP
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Name: Coleção Científica do Laboratório de Herpetologia da UNESP, Campus do Litoral Paulista
Scientific Collection of the Herpetology Lab of UNESP, Coastal Campus​
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Curator: Prof. Ivan Nunes
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Address: Laboratório de Herpetologia (LHERP), Instituto de Biociências da UNESP, Campus do Litoral Paulista (IBCLP). Praça Infante Dom Henrique, s/n, Parque Bitaru.
CEP 11.330-900, São Vicente, São Paulo, Brazil.
Collection Highlights
The HCLP - Scientific Collection of the Herpetology Lab of UNESP, Coastal Campus is a hub of collections of amphibians, reptiles, and associated material (sounds and tissues). The collection was created in 2016, when Professor Ivan Nunes was hired at the Sao Paulo State University, to work in the areas of Systematics, Evolution, Biogeography and Scientific Methodology. We house more than 1,000 specimes from Brasil, collected in several areas of Atlantic Forest, Caatinga, Cerrado (Savannas), and Pantanal (Brazilian floodplain). The specimens comes from scientific fieldwork, environmental consulti, wildlife rescue and others. Below, the specific acronyms of each collection division.
HCLP-A: Amphibians Collection of the Scientific Collection of the Herpetology Lab of UNESP, Coastal Campus.
HCLP-R: Reptiles Collection of the Scientific Collection of the Herpetology Lab of UNESP, Coastal Campus
HCLP-S: Sound Collection of the Scientific Collection of the Herpetology Lab of UNESP, Coastal Campus
HCLP-T: Tissues Collection of the Scientific Collection of the Herpetology Lab of UNESP, Coastal Campus​
Accessing the Collection
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The HCLP collections are a used global resource. Our goal is to provide as much access to the collections as possible. Accessing the collection generally occurs in one of following ways:
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Free online access to our collections database (in progress), including specimen records and associated locality data. Both physical and genetic information is available via SibBR. This is generally the first step for collections-based projects or queries. Each database is updated annualy with new information from our in-house database. Specific database questions may also be sent via e-mail to our curatorial staff.
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Loans of physical specimens to individual researchers. See our Collections Policies (below) for further details.
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Visits by qualified professional and student researchers. We offer working space for visiting scholars from a few days to a year or more. Please contact curatorial sataff by the collections form below to learn more about opportunities for collections visits.
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Collection Policies:
(in progress)​
Collection Contacts
- Mailing address:
UNESP, Campus do Litoral Paulista
Instituto de Biociências, Laboratório de Herpetologia
Praça Infante Dom Henrique, s/nº, Parque Bitaru
São Vicente, SP, Brazil
P.O. Box 73601 - CEP 11380-972
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- Collection e-mail: herp [dot] clp [at] unesp [dot] br
- Phone: +55-13-35697183
Work Mon - Fry
From 8:00am to 6:00pm