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KARLSRUHE: the zoological collections of the State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe
Höfer, H.; Manegold, A.; Riedel, A.; Trusch, R.; Verhaagh, M. (2018). KARLSRUHE: the zoological collections of the State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe, in: Beck, L.A. (Ed.) Zoological Collections of Germany. Natural History Collections, : pp. 683-706. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44321-8_58
In: Beck, L.A. (Ed.) (2018). Zoological Collections of Germany. Natural History Collections. Springer International Publishing: [s.l.]. ISBN 978-3-319-44319-5. XXXII, 729 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44321-8, more
In: Natural History Collections. Springer: Cham. ISSN 2510-1862, more
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Keywords
    Arachnida [WoRMS]; Curculionidae Latreille, 1802 [WoRMS]; Oribatida [WoRMS]
Author keywords
    Andrias; Arachnida; Max Auerbach; Karoline Luise von Baden; Baden-Württemberg; Curculionidae; Karl Christian Gmelin; Hans Himmelheber; Friedrich Kiefer; Mammal skulls; Microlepidoptera; Oribatida; Soil fauna; Southwestern Germany
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  • Höfer, H.
  • Manegold, A.
  • Riedel, A.
  • Trusch, R.
  • Verhaagh, M.
Abstract
    The State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe is an institution of the state of Baden-Württemberg, with a staff of currently 57 permanent employees. It has emerged from the cabinet of natural history of Karoline Luise, Margravine of Baden and is open to the public since 1785. Permanent and temporary exhibitions extending to 5000 m2 provide the basis for manifold educational activities. Living animals are integrated into the permanent exhibition, a 240,000 l seawater tank with a living coral reef and reef sharks being a major attraction for the public. Zoological research at the museum mainly deals with biodiversity, i.e., taxonomy, faunistics, biogeography, natural history, and ecology. It is strongly based on museum collections but also on field sampling in soil ecological studies. The zoological collections incorporate about 8.5 million specimens, mostly terrestrial, but also a mollusk collection (Conchylia) of historical importance and the Kiefer collection of fresh water Copepoda. Important collections are on Arachnida, Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Mantodea, as well as small mammals from Baden-Württemberg and large series of mammal skulls from West Africa. Biogeographic emphases are on the fauna of Southwestern Germany, the Middle East (Iran, Afghanistan), the Indo-Australian region and the Neotropics.
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