{"id":433,"date":"2024-10-04T17:02:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T00:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbs.wsu.edu\/conner-museum\/?page_id=433"},"modified":"2025-07-11T16:30:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T23:30:04","slug":"herpetology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sbs.wsu.edu\/conner-museum\/research-collections\/herpetology\/","title":{"rendered":"Herpetology Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone wp-image-452 size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"792\" height=\"393\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/1363\/2024\/10\/HerpBanner-792x393.jpg\" alt=\"Gopher snakes (Pituophis catenifer) preserved in ethanol. \" class=\"wp-image-452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/1363\/2024\/10\/HerpBanner-792x393.jpg 792w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/1363\/2024\/10\/HerpBanner-396x196.jpg 396w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/1363\/2024\/10\/HerpBanner-768x381.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/1363\/2024\/10\/HerpBanner-1536x762.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/1363\/2024\/10\/HerpBanner-2048x1016.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/1363\/2024\/10\/HerpBanner-198x98.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Gopher snakes (<em>Pituophis catenifer<\/em>) preserved in ethanol.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The museum has 7,000 cataloged herpetology specimens. The vast majority of these specimens are preserved in ethanol, plus ~200 skeletons and a small number of tissue samples (stored at -80F). This collection comprises over 850 species across 58 families. Most of this collection is from Washington (2,000 specimens) and Oregon (2,100 specimens), though we have representatives from all over the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our herpetology collection can be viewed on Arctos: <a href=\"https:\/\/arctos.database.museum\/crcm_herp\">Our herpetology collection at the Arctos website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The museum has 7,000 cataloged herpetology specimens. The vast majority of these specimens are preserved in ethanol, plus ~200 skeletons and a small number of tissue samples (stored at -80F). This collection comprises over 850 species across 58 families. Most of this collection is from Washington (2,000 specimens) and Oregon (2,100 specimens), though we have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11284,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbs.wsu.edu\/conner-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbs.wsu.edu\/conner-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbs.wsu.edu\/conner-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbs.wsu.edu\/conner-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbs.wsu.edu\/conner-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/sbs.wsu.edu\/conner-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"https:\/\/sbs.wsu.edu\/conner-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/433\/revisions\/655"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbs.wsu.edu\/conner-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbs.wsu.edu\/conner-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbs.wsu.edu\/conner-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbs.wsu.edu\/conner-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbs.wsu.edu\/conner-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbs.wsu.edu\/conner-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}