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- Title
RIORDINO E AGGIORNAMENTO TASSONOMICO DELLA "COLLEZIONE DI MALACOLOGIA ECOLOGICA" DI PIETRO PARENZAN PRIMA PARTE.
- Authors
POSI, MARCELLO EMILIO; SCUDERI, DANILO; MIGLIETTA, ANNA MARIA; BELMONTE, GENUARIO
- Abstract
Many authors have recently evidenced the importance of museums relatively to the research in the fields of the ecology, biodiversity and nature conservation. Collections represent vast archives of information useful to implement the effectiveness of scientific surveys. In many decades of research activities, Prof. Pietro Parenzan, who founded the Marine Biology Museum in Porto Cesareo, has constituted a shell collection of 1556 species represented by thousands of specimens. The Collection was realized dredging sea bottoms along the coasts of Apulia and through specimens exchange activities with other famous malacologists. The present work represents a first contribution to the restitution of the historical and documentary heritage named "Ecological Malacology Collection" by the Prof. P. Parenzan to the scientific community. Such a purpose has been pursued through photographic documentation, ordering and conservation renewal activities, but also through the realization of a digital catalogue and by a modernization of the taxonomical positioning of specimens which, by now, is limited to 1241 mono specific shell groups (on a total of 6794).
- Subjects
MUSEUMS &; education; ECOLOGICAL research; BIODIVERSITY research; NATURE conservation; SCIENTIFIC surveys
- Publication
Thalassia Salentina, 2012, Vol 34, p43
- ISSN
0563-3745
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1285/i15910725v34p43