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The molluscs collection (IM) of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN - Paris)
Citatie
MNHN - Museum national d'Histoire naturelle: Molluscs specimens https://doi.org/10.15468/xgoxap
Contact:
Lozouet, Pierre Beschikbaarheid: Vrij beschikbaar
The data are freely available to anybody and may be used for any purpose. Usage acknowledgement may be required Beschrijving
The collection of marine, terrestrial and freshwater molluscs is primarily a scientific but also a historical and museological collection. It includes about 800 000 lots, totaling approximately 5 million specimens from around the world. These specimens are preserved as either dry specimens (dried animals, shells) or in alcohol. The type collection contains 11 000 types of nominal species. The collection dates back to Michel Adanson (shells of Senegal, 1757) and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. meer
The collection increased through donations of amateur collectors, institutional legacies and purchases, and the activity of scientists from both the Museum and other institutions. This diversity of sources continues today, but large expeditions have been very important from the late eighteenth century through to the colonial era, a role they continue to play to this day. The "Tropical Deep-Sea benthos" oceanographic expeditions (formerly MUSORSTOM), launched in the early 1980s to sample the benthos of the tropical South and West-Pacific, have resulted in the collection becoming the best in the world for deep-sea faunas (100-1.500 m bathymetric zone). It is particularly rich in micromolluscs. Historical sections of the collection contain representatives of terrestrial and freshwater molluscs that are now extinct. Scope Thema's: Biologie > Invertebraten Kernwoorden: Marien/Kust, Zoet water, Brak water, Terrestrisch, Museum collections, A, Atlantic, I, Pacific, ISW, Indische Oceaan, World, Mollusca Geografische spreiding A, Atlantic [Marine Regions] I, Pacific [Marine Regions] ISW, Indische Oceaan [Marine Regions] World [Marine Regions] Taxonomic coverage
Mollusca [WoRMS]
Bijdrage door
National Natural History Museum Paris (MNHN), meer, data eigenaar
Dataset status: Gestart
Data type: Data
Data oorsprong: Museum collectie
Metadatarecord aangemaakt: 2011-12-19
Informatie laatst gewijzigd: 2018-03-02
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