collection of vertebrates
naturalized vertebrate collections, completely restored, are recently been set up in a filing made suitable for their preservation and usable by the public on special occasions. It is about 10,000 specimens arranged according to the number of inventory for easy reference. For many of them, through archival documents, you can rebuild the historic route.
Nell'esemplificazione material, including preparations spallanzaniana era that are still preserved, are an important bottlenose dolphin ( Tursiops truncatus) acquired by Spallanzani in 1781 during a trip to Marseille, a Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus), donated in 1782 by Count Giacomo Sannazaro; a hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) came from Mantua in 1783 and the subject of a long fight that ended with the sending Mantova in a series of duplicates of minerals in return, the collection of Dutch doctor Van Hoey, rich in fish and reptiles.
the collection is also inclusive of a shark (Isurus oxyrhynchus) from the Strait of Messina, Gaetano Grano bought by the abbot in 1790.
Reptiles from the massive structure including a python, an anaconda and an alligator.
In the survey of marine and freshwater fish, deserve particular attention to the collection of fish dipnoi acquired by Pavesi and a rare specimen of Latimeria chalumnae celacantide, donated to the museum in years recent.
The extensive ornithological collection also includes the birds of paradise and donated by the Marquis Giacomo Doria ua wonderful pair Andean Condor (Vultur gryphus) caught in Chile in 1835 by the explorer Gaetano Osculati.
Among the major carnivores is a pair of young Barbary lions (Panthera leo leo) purchased in Paris in 1812 and trained at the famous naturalist and embryologist Mauro Rusconi. Complete is the order of the Proboscidea with a young Indian elephant (Elephas maximus), acquired in 1812 by Mangili, and African elephant (Loxodonta africana) in the collection arrived at the direction of Pavia.
Collection of invertebrates
specimens of invertebrates amounted to roughly 100,000, distributed in classes pertinenza.Tra collections are the oldest coral on obsidian collected by Spallanzani Lipari Castle, during the famous journey to the Kingdom of Two Sicilies in 1788. Of particular value is the collection of visceral worms Pastor John Augustus Goez purchased by Joseph II in 1787.
This is a huge collection of intestinal parasites of absolute scientific value, including many 'types', ie copies on which has been described specie.A explain the modern concept of biodiversity includes the collection of 20,000 shells and land 'fresh water collected from Arturo Issel and purchased from Pavia in 1894. Pavese, arachnologists known scholar, the museum has, among other things, ragni.Di collection of great value is the collection of sponges gathered, developed and donated to the museum by Balsamo Crivelli.Tra specimens of crustaceans is necessary, with more than two meters, a giant crab of Japan.
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Chamber of comparative anatomy
the museum also has a section on comparative anatomy, varied by type of materials which is prepared in organs preserved in different ways, both skeletal system.
addition to specimens of small and medium size there are complete skeletons of an elephant, a giraffe, and a fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus). The latter, spiaggiatasi Levanto, near La Spezia in 1902, was acquired in the same year by Leopoldo Maggi, director of the Museum of Comparative Anatomy. Among the osteological remains of cetaceans is the exceptional presence of a jaw, a shoulder blade and vertebra of a Bowhead Whale (Balena mysticetus), which were donated by the Government in Habsburg Spallanzani in 1793.
Section of Paleontology
The old Museum of Mineralogy in the 900 went to meet a series of subdivisions.
The collections have been merged into geo-mineralogical museum attached to the Department of Earth Sciences: those relevant paleontological for all'erigendo Museum of Natural History, are still lying at the Visconti Castle. A small group of findings reported by Spallanzani volcanic rocks from the trip to the volcanic islands and some fossils purchased in 1774 by Antonio Fabrini, director of the mint of Florence, was instead transferred to the Museum for the History of the University at the time of the creation of this 'last (1932). The paleontological section of the natural history museum has a rich collection of vertebrate fossils. Among these, one of the most important, both from the historical point of view and from that science is undoubtedly one of the fishes of Monte Bolca.
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