Corresponding author: Ed Baker (
Academic editor: Ben Price
The Natural History Museum (NHM) sound archive contains recordings of
Eighteen recordings of mole crickets (three identified species) held by the NHM have been made available under open licenses via BioAcoustica. 3D scans of the burrows of
Mole Crickets (
The collection of
Acoustic monitoring devices have been developed for other species of
Online libraries of recorded wildife sound are useful in taxonomic studies (e.g.
3D scans of burrow casts of the species
Digitising the NHM Wildlife Sound Collection. I.
This work, in part, uses tools developed by the Natural History Museum Departmental Investment Fund (DIF) award SDF 14011.
Recordings are held from Europe (
Recordings of three species of
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BioAcoustica uses a flexible licencing model where contributors may choose a licence for each recording they upload. Recordings owned by the Natural History Museum are available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) Licence. 3D models are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC) licence following standard NHM policy. Other resources on BioAcoustica may use different licenses.
Burrow cast and sound data for NHM Gryllotalpidae
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NHM Specimens relating to sound recordings of Gryllotalpidae
CSV
Column label | Column description |
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Specimen | Unique ID of the specimen (see 'NHM Specimen Idenitifers') |
Type | Type of specimen of observation |
Species | Species name |
Link to specimen | Link to the specimen record on BioAcoustica |
Link to recording | Link to recording record on BioAcoustica |
Link to burrow cast | Link to burrow cast on the NHM Data Portal |
The existence of a specimen (
A recording of a specimen of
Traditionally the Entomology Department of the Natural History Museum has indexed 'specimen lots' using the format 'B.M. YEAR-#' where # is a sequential number for the given year. Individual specimens were therefore rarely assigned a unique identifier (the original "B.M. numbers" are provided for specimen records in BioAcoustica). Recently the museum has moved away from the classic BMNH coden to NHMUK, while entomology specimens have been given unique identifiers of the form BMNH(E). This results in the rather long DarwinCore identifiers NHMUK-BMNH(E)-########. These specimens are currently being enterred into the Museum's collection managaement system.
For specimens where we have recordings that can be georefrenced and dated, but there is known to be no corresponding specimen in the NHM collection, the identifiers of the observation are given the format BioAcoustica-Collector-#.
We would like to thank our colleagues at the Natural History Museum who have enabled this work: Heather Bonney, George Beccaloni, Adrian Hine and Ben Price. Philippa Richardson, Vince Smith and Laurence Livermore provided comments on the draft manuscript.
The project was conceived by Ed Baker who digitised the recordings and burrow casts. Sam Broom digitised the metadata relating to the sound collection.
Oscillogram of
Song frequencies of (a)
Mesh from 3D scan of the burrow of
Laser scanning the burrow cast of
Geographic location of recordings of