Collezione di Macroscelidea del Museo di Storia naturale di Firenze | Macroscelidea collection of the Natural History Museum of Florence

Occurrence
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Publication date:
13 August 2025
License:
CC-BY-NC 4.0

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Description

The whole set of non-alcohol preserved specimens of Macroscelidea kept in the Natural History Museum of Florence.

Data Records

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Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Fracassi E (2025). Collezione di Macroscelidea del Museo di Storia naturale di Firenze | Macroscelidea collection of the Natural History Museum of Florence. Version 1.0. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Bioscienze e BioRisorse (CNR-IBBR). Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.ibbr.cnr.it/ipt/resource?r=mzuf-mam_macroscelidea&v=1.0

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituti del Dipartimento di Scienze Bio-AgroAlimentari (CNR-DiSBA). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 2d5629ab-d7bd-4091-bdc0-8315e2199d42.  Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituti del Dipartimento di Scienze Bio-AgroAlimentari (CNR-DiSBA) publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by DiSSCo.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

Enrico Fracassi
  • Originator
Lorenzo Cecchi
  • Point Of Contact
  • Curator
Università degli Studi di Firenze, Sistema museale di Ateneo, Museo di Storia naturale, Collezioni di Botanica Filippo Parlatore
IT-50121 Firenze
IT
  • +390552757466
Paolo Agnelli
  • Point Of Contact
Università degli Studi di Firenze, Sistema museale di Ateneo, Museo di Storia naturale, Collezioni di Zoologia
IT-50125 Firenze
IT

Geographic Coverage

Eastern Africa.

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Order Macroscelidea

Project Data

ITINERIS is coordinated by the CNR (National Research Council). It started in November 2022, and during 30 (+6) months will carry out an ensemble of cross-disciplinary actions across the different environmental sub-domains, with the main aim to build the network of the Italian environmental Research Infrastructures, connect it to the user community and establish access, trough the ITINERIS HUB, to the vast array of knowledge, data, analytical tools, and service produced by the participating RIs.

Title ITINERIS - Italian Integrated Environmental Research Infrastructures System
Identifier CUP B53C22002150006
Funding EU – Next Generation EU PNRR - Mission 4 “Education and Research” – Component 2: “From research to business” – Investment 3.1: “Fund for the realisation of an integrated system of research and innovation infrastructures”.

The personnel involved in the project:

Lorenzo Cecchi
  • Reviewer
Gianna Innocenti
  • Reviewer
Stefano Di Natale
  • Reviewer
Enrico Fracassi
  • Reviewer
Elisabetta Lori
  • Reviewer

Sampling Methods

Usual dry, stuffed (skin) and mounted preserved specimen preparation.

Study Extent Worldwide.

Method step description:

  1. Collecting, fixing, labelling, storing, then digitizing.

Collection Data

Collection Name Collezione teriologica generale del Museo di Storia naturale di Firenze | General theriological collection of the Natural History Museum of Florence
Collection Identifier https://registry.gbif.org/collection/5744f099-c7d2-43ce-be90-04cadc3f550d
Parent Collection Identifier https://registry.gbif.org/collection/7856d07e-2e9b-4b56-a524-c2e1b830e40a
Specimen preservation methods Dried,  Mounted

Additional Metadata

Acknowledgements We thank the National Recovery and Resilience Plan of Italian Ministry of University and Research funded by EU – Next Generation EU Mission 4 “Education and Research” – Component 2: “From research to business” – Investment 3.1 (Project IR0000032 – ITINERIS, Italian Integrated Environmental Research Infrastructures System).
Alternative Identifiers https://ipt.ibbr.cnr.it/ipt/resource?r=mzuf-mam_macroscelidea