Details for Mammalia
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| Collection data |
| Name | Mammalia |
| Alternative name | |
| Description | The mammalogy collection includes specimens stuffed and mounted for display and educational purposes, or skin specimens preserved in liquid (prepared by the study) |
| Description for specialists | Collection of mammalian skins, which includes over 600 exhibits, including trophies, naturalized animals and preparations in liquid or dry Italian fauna includes species of high risk of extinction in nature. The core of the collections is the material property of the university, the ex-Museum of Zoology of the Royal University. Almost all of the stuffed specimens dating to the period in which the Institute of Zoology was directed by Antonio Carrucci (1883-1914). Since 1932, the collection has gone teriologica enriching, mainly osteological material, especially with acquisitions from the Zoo and rare scientific expeditions like the one organized by the CNR in the Upper Rio Negro of 1962-1963, led by Ettore Biocca. In many cases, individual samples could be of great scientific value, lack of accurate data on the location of capture.
Much of the material reached the Museum in Rome through donations of the royal family, the Italian Geographical Society (Material Boy, Antonelli and Antinori), Ministry of War (beams), the former Colonial Museum in Rome, Gronchi (circumnavigation of 'Caracciolo' ), Chierchia (circumnavigation of 'Vittor Pisani') |
| Cite as | |
| Provenance | The Historical Collection of Mammals of the Museum of Zoology of Rome comes from the Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy of the Pontifical Roman Archiginnasio, whose findings, once kept at the Institute of Zoology at "La Sapienza" University of Rome, were transferred to the nascent Museum of Villa Borghese in 1932. The original collection will be added over the years a substantial amount of zoological, partly gathered from the nearby Zoological Garden in Rome (in small percentage from other Zoos and wildlife Italian Parks) and the resulting reliance of specimens from the former Italian colonies in Africa by the Italian Institute for Africa and the East (ISIAO) |
| Notes | |
| Primary grouping principle | Cultural |
| Primary purpose | Commercial |
| Part of collection | |
| Related collection(s) | |
| Known to contain types | Not known to contain types |
| Rights |
| Rights | The materials are property of the Municipality of Rome |
| Access rights | The collection is freely available for scientific research, under the regulations set up by the managerial staff |
| Usage restrictions | Destructive or invasive assays are normally prohibited or must be previously agreed with the managerial staff. Uses other than for scientific research (e.g. extensive taking of pictures for commercial use) are subject to written contracts |
| Collection types |
| Animals, Taxonomic |
| McGinley conservation statuses |
| Level 2 |
Unidentified material, sorted only to major (usually suprageneric) groups and effectively inaccessible to the research community. |
| Level 4 |
Material identified to species level but not incorporated into main collection (e.g., material identified for biodiversity or ecological studies, surveys, etc.). |
| Level 6 |
Identified, integrated, and adequately curated. |
| Date |
14-05-2010 (dd-mm-yyyy) |
| Development status |
| Passive growth |
| Expeditions |
| Scientific expedition of CNR in the Alto Rio Negro, 1962-1963, led by Ettore Biocca |
| Formation periods |
| From the second half of the nineteenth century till nowadays |
| Collection extents |
| 500 specimens |
| Kingdom coverage |
| Animalia |
| Taxon coverage |
| All orders of mammals |
| Common name coverage |
| Collection of mammals |
| Geospatial coverage |
| Countries on five continents, Italy |
| Living time periods |
| Actual |
| Specimen preservation methods |
| Dried |
| Media |
| Boxes and exposition halls |
| File formats |
| unapplicable |
| Item level access |
| Source: not available |
| Related material |
| Carlini R., 1988. Tre anni di attività cetologica del Museo Civico di Zoologia di Roma. Atti Soc. It. Sci. Nat. Mus Civ. Stor. Nat. Milano, 129 (4): 519-531., Carlini R., 1990. I Cetacei del Museo Civico di Zoologia di Roma (1899-1989). Museol. sci., 7 (3-4): 187-194., Carlini R., Ceccarelli A. and Marangoni G. 1999. Il recupero e la valorizzazione della collezione di Primati del Museo Civico di Zoologia di Roma. Museol. sci., 16 (2): 183-194., Carlini R., Pulcini M. 1992. I Cetacei non comuni lungo le coste laziali e nella collezione del Museo di Zoologia di Roma. Atti del Seminario Internazionale di Studi 'Ecosistema marino'. Azienda Aut. Soggiorno e Turismo di Formia e WWF Italia, pp.87-91., Cignini B. and D’Alessandro A. 1991 (1992). Lo zoo di Roma e le sue collezioni al 1989. Museol. sci., 8: 97- 119., Svampa G. and Gippoliti S. 2003. Le collezioni di Mammiferi del Museo Civico di Zoologia di Roma: una sintesi storica. Hystrix It. J. Mamm., (n.s.) suppl.: 201-202. |