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Symbiota Collections of Arthropods Network (SCAN): A Data Portal Built to Visualize, Manipulate, and Export Species OccurrencesHIDE CAPTION Melanoplus cinereus; DPG1HEXA0001080; Robert J. Delph 2015-08-24. Image by: Tanner Carothers. HIDE CAPTION Brachystylus acutus; ASUHIC0019432; G.H. Nelson 1973-06-17. Courtesy of: ASU. HIDE CAPTION Temnothorax neomexicanus; Gary D. Alpert 2018-05-22. Image by: Gary Alpert. HIDE CAPTION Vespula pensylvanica; DPG1HEXA0002724; R.L. Johnson 1994-06-20. Image by: Tanner Carothers. HIDE CAPTION Melissodes bimatris; Dpg1HEXA0000076; H. Ikerd 2003-11-16. Image by: Tanner Carothers. HIDE CAPTION Apion graciliforme; USNMType1280; Smith, J.B. 43. Image by: Ashton Smith. HIDE CAPTION Enoclerus laetus; DPG1HEXA0006031; Robert J. Delph 2015-08-17. Image by: Catherine Bollich. HIDE CAPTION Ponometia elegantula; DPG1HEXA0005475; Robert J. Delph 2018-06-19. Image by: Zane Holditch. HIDE CAPTION Laemosaccus; Gary D. Alpert 2017-06-27. Image by: Gary Alpert. HIDE CAPTION Leptochilus; Gary D. Alpert 2017-05-16. Image by: Gary Alpert.
The Symbiota Collections of Arthropods Network (SCAN) serves specimen occurrence records and images from over
100 North American arthropod collections for all arthropod taxa. The focus is on North America but global in scope.
SCAN is built on Symbiota, a web-based collections database system that is used for other taxonomic data portals,
including (Symbiota Portals). SCAN is the primary repository for occurrence data produced by the four continuing
Thematic Collections Networks (TCNs), the Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network (SCAN TCN), the Lepidoptera
of North America Network (LepNet TCN), Terrestrial Parasite Tracker (TPT),
and arthropod data produced by InvertEBase TCN.
InvertEBase serves occurrence data for mollusk and other non-arthropod taxa. We also host observational data, the largest
data provider is iNaturalist. Each collection is primarily responsible for their data and we have structured the database to
make it easy to include collections of interest when querying the database.
Important features of all Symbiota portals include:
The key organizational feature is that each museum or project is listed as a separate collection, so that one database group
does not interfere with another. End users can select all "collections", or just a subset. This website is the central data
portal for SCAN; all other project information can be found on the LepNet WordPress site, including How-To-Guides and network
updates.
SCAN currently
serves 28,440,905 records for
over 238,177 species, and over 2,276,630 specimen/label images.
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