VertNet-home

VertNet

Currently, across four portals, there are 82 unique institutions globally with 69 more who have committed to or expressed interest in participating. Together, these networks provide open access to approximately 85 million vertebrate records.

VertNet News

New collections

Now on MaNIS

Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Moore Laboratory of Zoology

Now on HerpNET

University of Texas at Arlington

Now on ORNIS

Moore Laboratory of Zoology
Tall Timbers Research Station
University of Wyoming Museum of Vertebrates

VertNet Networks

MaNIS, HerpNET, ORNIS and FishNet are taxon-based, distributed database networks of natural history collection data. Each network has a separate search portal that is designed to query the participating institutions and return results in a standardized format. You can search for collection data as well as map specimens that have latitude and longitude coordinates.

Do you have or know of a collection that should be part of VertNet? Review the requirements to join the network.

VertNet Social Media

If you like VertNet and what we're doing, please give us a