What's es-BANK?

es-BANK is an orderly system of collection, archiving, cataloging and management of biological and environmental specimens from all over the world and provide them to wide range of researchers within and outside our university for improving scope of the monitoring studies on environmental toxic substances.
Archived specimens: wildlife, water, sediments etc., containing about 1,300 species and 100,000 specimens collected from Asia, Europe, Australia, North/South America and Antarctic, and from Arctic, North/South Pacific, North/South Atlantic, Indian and Antarctic Oceans during the last 50 years.

Taxon Species count Specimen count

News
Mar. 08, 2012 281terrestrial mammal samples, 258cetacean & sea cows samples and 77invertebrate samples have been added to the database.
Mar. 08, 2012 110bird samples, 438fish samples, and 6reptile & amphibian samples have been added to the database.
Nov. 14, 2011 1324 terrestrial mammal samples, 9 seal samples, 759 cetacean samples and 41 bird samples have been added to the database.
Oct. 25, 2011 255 bird samples, 3063 fish samples and 196 invertebrate samples have been added to the database.
Apr. 21, 2011 1966 cetacean samples and 243 invertebrate samples have been added to the database.
Apr. 21, 2011 304 reptile & amphibian samples and 1734 terrestrial mammal samples have been added to the database.
Apr. 21, 2011 212 bird samples and 387 fish samples have been added to the database.
Nov. 29, 2010 33 terrestrial mammal samples have been added to the database.
Nov. 26, 2010 23 terrestrial mammal samples have been added to the database.
Nov. 22, 2010 55 terrestrial mammal samples have been added to the database.
Archived news
Contacts
Center for Marine Environmental Studies, Ehime University
2-5 Bunkyo-cho, Matsuyama 790-8577, Japan
Tel&Fax: +81-89-927-8133  E-mail: es-bank@agr.ehime-u.ac.jp
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