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Collection Malacology - SNSD [Sammlung Malakologie - SNSD] Citation Senckenberg: Collection Malacology - SNSD https://doi.org/10.15468/dmitnd Contact: Allspach, Andreas Availability: Unrestricted The data are freely available to anybody and may be used for any purpose. Usage acknowledgement may be required Description The Malacology - SNSD collection is part of the SeSAM collections of Senckenberg. This collection is kept in the Natural History Museum in Dresden and contains mollusc specimens from all over the world. more The mollusc collection houses approximately 1 million specimens of Gastropoda, Bivalvia, Cephalopoda, Polyplacophora, and Scaphopoda. The material originates from world-wide distributed localities with a special focus on Central Europe, South East Asia, the Russian Far East , Western Africa, and the Caribbean. Historical important material is that of Theodor & Paul Reibsch (Dresden), Kurt Büttner (Zwickau), and Arthur Schlechter (Kamenz), which provides the probable most important archive of Saxonian land- and freshwater molluscs, completed by a substantial collection of freshwater pearl mussels. Scope Themes: Biology > Benthos Keywords: Marine/Coastal, Fresh water, Terrestrial, Museum specimens, Global, Mollusca Geographical coverage Global Taxonomic coverage Mollusca [WoRMS] Parameter Collected biological specimens Contributors Senckenberg Nature Research Society; Research Institute and Natural History Museum, more, data creator Related datasets Published in: SeSAM collections of Senckenberg, more URLs Dataset status: In Progress Data type: Data Data origin: Museum collection Metadatarecord created: 2013-08-30 Information last updated: 2014-04-16 |