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 collection (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.
It then 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.
GBIF url: https://www.gbif.org/dataset/0214a6a7-898f-4ee8-b888-0be60ecde81f
Citation: MNHN, Chagnoux S (2024). The molluscs collection (IM) of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN - Paris). Version 70.353. MNHN - Museum national d'Histoire naturelle. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/xgoxap accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-04-08.
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 collection (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.
It then 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.
GBIF url: https://www.gbif.org/dataset/0214a6a7-898f-4ee8-b888-0be60ecde81f
Citation: MNHN, Chagnoux S (2024). The molluscs collection (IM) of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN - Paris). Version 70.353. MNHN - Museum national d'Histoire naturelle. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/xgoxap accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-04-08.
資料集編號
0214a6a7-898f-4ee8-b888-0be60ecde81f (DatasetUUID)
其他標題
資料集作者
MNHN, Simon Chagnoux, Pierre Lozouet
資料集發佈者
MNHN - Museum national d'Histoire naturelle
來源
GBIF
資料集標籤
授權
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詮釋資料更新日期
2024-04-08
觀測資料最新匯入日期
類群
蝸牛與貝類
紀錄筆數
1,417
下載次數
243