NHMD Invertebrate Zoology Collection
Citation
Natural History Museum of Denmark (2021). NHMD Invertebrate Zoology Collection. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/9dbsqx accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-08-27.Description
The invertebrate collection (excepting insects and some other arthropods) is for historical reasons very much focused on marine fauna. The geographical representation is especially good for areas where Denmark has been present as a nation: Danish marine territory, Greenland, the North Atlantic in general, and our former, tropical colonies. The collection contains large amounts of original and type material from the period 1760 to about a hundred years later, when the description of the animal kingdom was really gaining speed. From later, important initiatives it is relevant to mention material from the “Dana” plankton expeditions, the “Galathea” Deep Sea Expedition, and from recent years large amounts of previously poorly known or undescribed, so called meiofauna animals.
Samlingen af hvirvelløse dyr (undtagen insekter og visse andre leddyr) har af historiske grunde specielt fokus på den marine fauna. Geografisk er repræsentationen særligt god for områder, hvor Danmark har været nationalt til stede: dansk havområde, Grønland, Nordatlanten generelt og vore tidligere tropekolonier. Samlingen rummer store mængder original- og typemateriale fra perioden 1760 og hundrede år frem, hvor dyrerigets beskrivelse virkelig tog fart. Af senere, vigtige indsatser kan nævnes “Dana”-ekspeditionernes plankton, “Galathea” Dybhavsekspeditionens indsamlinger og fra de senere år de store materialer af tidligere ret ukendte eller helt ubeskrevne, såkaldte meiofauna-dyr.
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Contacts
Martin Vinther Sørensencurator
position: Curator of Mollusca, Plathyhelminthes, Cnidaria - Ctenophora and Porifera
Natural History Museum of Denmark
email: mvsorensen@snm.ku.dk
Jørgen Olesen
curator
position: Curator of Echinodermata 'Tentaculata', Crustacea and 'Vermes'
Natural History Museum of Denmark
email: jolesen@snm.ku.dk
Laura Pavesi
metadata author
position: Collection manager of Plathyhelminthes, Cnidaria, Ctenophora and Porifera
Natural History Museum of Denmark
email: lpavesi@snm.ku.dk
Tom Schiøtte
metadata author
position: Collection manager of Mollusca, Echinodermata, 'Tentaculata' and Tunicata
Natural History Museum of Denmark
email: tschioette@snm.ku.dk
homepage: https://samlinger.snm.ku.dk/en/dry-and-wet-collections/zoology/mollusca-collection/
Danny Eibye-Jacobsen
metadata author
position: Collection manager of Crustacea and 'Vermes'
Natural History Museum of Denmark
email: dejacobsen@snm.ku.dk
Fedor Alexander Steeman
distributor
position: Data Coordinator
Natural History Museum of Denmark
Universitetsparken 15
Copenhagen
2100
Capital Region of Denmark
DK
Telephone: +45 22369539
email: fedor.steeman@snm.ku.dk
homepage: https://snm.ku.dk/english/
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2153-8104
Zsuzsanna Papp
distributor
position: Data Coordinator
Natural History Museum of Denmark
Universitetsparken 15
Copenhagen
2100
Capital Region of Denmark
DK
email: zsuzsanna.papp@snm.ku.dk