LS Arachnida and Myriapoda
About this product
Overview
LS Arachnida and Myriapoda groups 39 collection units from the LS Arachnida and Myriapoda section within the LS Invertebrates division (Life Sciences), covering an estimated 1,673,495 individual items held across 247,867 curatorial/storage units. Material is predominantly whole organisms (30 of 39 collection units), whole or partial organism (8 of 39 collection units), and nests (1 of 39 collection units). Geographic coverage is centred on World terrestrial, Europe, and Unspecified. Preservation is mainly microscope slide, other, and dry pinned. Named taxa represented in this product include Acari, Arachnida, Arthropoda, Chilopoda, and Diplopoda, among others.
Value
Curatorial assessment rates this product highly on Identification, Strategy/mission/research, and Development potential (avg. 3.7/5 across its top three scored dimensions), indicating it is well positioned for external licensing relative to other NHM holdings.
Use Cases
- training data for computer-vision species-identification and biodiversity-monitoring models
- high-resolution specimen imagery for scientific illustration, publishing, and natural-history media
- reference datasets for evolutionary biology, morphometrics, and comparative anatomy research
- content for natural-history apps, citizen-science platforms, and museum digital exhibits
- supervised computer-vision or species-identification model training, thanks to reliable taxonomic ground truth
- academic and institutional research licensing (biodiversity, systematics, and comparative studies)
Assets (39)
Arachnida - Acari - A.D. Michael Collection - Slide collection
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Arachnida - Acari - Identified unincorporated material - Slide collection
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Arachnida - Acari - Named collections (Manton & Sedgewick; J.E. Hull; Bernice Brewster) - Slide collection
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Arachnida - Acari - Unidentified unincorporated material - Slide collection
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Arachnida - Acari - Wet Collection
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Arachnida - Araneae (main collection) - Wet collection
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Arachnida - British collection - Wet collection
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Arachnida - Dry collection
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Arachnida - Eggs next and Cocoons - Dry collection
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Arachnida - Small orders - Wet collection
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Arachnida - Unidentified material - Wet collection
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Arachnida and Myriapoda - Sectional Archives
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Arachnida and Myriapoda - Teaching material - Wet collection
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Myriapoda - Acari (International Institute of Entomology cabinets) - Slide collection
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Myriapoda - Araneae (International Institute of Entomology cabinets) - Slide collection
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Myriapoda - Astigmata - Slide collection
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Myriapoda - Chilopoda - Unidentified material - Wet collection
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Myriapoda - Chilopoda - Wet collection
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Myriapoda - Chilopoda (International Institute of Entomology cabinets) - Slide collection
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Myriapoda - Diplopoda - Unidentified material - Wet collection
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Myriapoda - Diplopoda - Wet collection
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Myriapoda - Diplopoda (International Institute of Entomology cabinets) - Slide collection
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Myriapoda - Dry collection
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Myriapoda - Ixodida - Slide collection
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Myriapoda - Mesostigmata - Slide collection
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Myriapoda - Opiliones - Wet collection
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Myriapoda - Opiliones (International Institute of Entomology cabinets) - Slide collection
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Myriapoda - Oribatida - Slide collection
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Myriapoda - Palpigrada (International Institute of Entomology cabinets) - Slide collection
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Myriapoda - Pauropoda (International Institute of Entomology cabinets) - Slide collection
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Myriapoda - Pedipalpa (International Institute of Entomology cabinets) - Slide collection
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Myriapoda - Prostigmata - Slide collection
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Myriapoda - Pseudoscorpiones (International Institute of Entomology cabinets) - Slide collection
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Myriapoda - Ricinulei (International Institute of Entomology cabinets) - Slide collection
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Myriapoda - Schizomida (International Institute of Entomology cabinets) - Slide collection
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Myriapoda - Scorpiones - Wet collection
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Myriapoda - Scorpiones (International Institute of Entomology cabinets) - Slide collection
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Myriapoda - Solifugida (International Institute of Entomology cabinets) - Slide collection
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Myriapoda - Symphla (International Institute of Entomology cabinets) - Slide collection
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