The BYU herpetology collection houses over 40,000 fluid preserved specimens, including 36 types, and over 15,000 tissue samples. The geographic focus of the collection is the Great Basin/Intermountain West, but there are also extensive collections from Latin America, Central Africa, and the Pacific. The BYU Life Science Museum was formerly known as the Monte L. Bean Museum.

GBIF url: https://www.gbif.org/dataset/847aa410-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a
Homepage: https://lsm.byu.edu/research-collections
Citation: Whiting A (2026). Brigham Young University (BYU) Herpetology Collection (Arctos). Brigham Young University Life Science Museum. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/tekwqq accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-08-07.