Vertebrate collection (Luomus) http://tun.fi/HR.41

Collection Name

Vertebrate collection (Luomus) (en)

Selkärankaiskokoelma (Luomus) (fi)

Type of the collection

Specimens

Collection description

Vertebrate collections of the Zoological Museum of the Finnish Museum of Natural History (MZH), comprising at present about 140000 specimens. (en)

Luonnontieteellisen keskusmuseon selkärankaiskokoelmissa on noin 140000 näytettä. Näytteet ovat pääosin Suomesta, mutta myös eri puolilta maailmaa. Lintuja on kokoelmassa on noin 42000, nisäkkäitä 53000, matelijoita ja sammakkoeläimiä 3000 ja kaloja 6000. Selkärankaiskokoelmaan kuuluu myös linnunmunakokoelma, jossa on noin 39000 munapesyettä tai yksittäistä munaa. (fi)

Taxonomic coverage

Vertebrata

Temporal coverage

1840s-

Geographic coverage

World

Coverage basis

The samples are mainly from Finland but also from other parts of the world. The materials include separate collections of Birds (40000 specimens), Mammals (53000), Amphibians and Reptiles (3000) and Fishes (5000). They also include a Bird egg collection containing 39000 egg clutches or single eggs.

Collection methods

various

Collection quality

Professional / professionally curated

License

Creative Commons Attribution

Contact email

risto.vainola@helsinki.fi

Collection size (approx.)

140000

Percentage digitized (approx.)

95

Number of type specimen (c.)

80

Number of specimens

Number of type specimens

Number of all observations

Status of this metadata

satisfactory – could be improved

Date created

25.10.2012 11:51

Date edited

05.10.2023 20:56

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