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Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona
Number of records published in GBIF

30.987

Contact

Administrative Contact

Javier Quesada Lara

Contact

Jordi Agulló Villaronga

Telephone

+34 932562224

Address

Passeig Picasso s/n
Barcelona
08003
Barcelona
ESPAÑA

Email

jquesadal@bcn.cat

Website

https://museuciencies.cat/es/area-cientifica/colecciones/colecciones-zoologicas/vertebrados/

Colección de Cordados, Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona

Description

The Chordate collection (except Tissue Bank) contains more than 30,000 specimens, 24.000 of which have geographical origin documented. Collection grows annually by donations and passive recollections. Specimens come from several sources: nature, the Zoological Park of Barcelona, and animal recovery centers in Catalonia. There is a Laboratory where specimens are prepared (study skins, mounted, skeletons, tissues, etc). Chordates are primarily used for scientific and educational purposes. Chondrichthyes collection consists of 580 specimens; Actinopterygii collection contains 9.600 specimens. In both cases, are whole animals alcohol preserved, collected in Spain and Africa. Amphibians, 1.400 specimens, are preserved in alcohol; nearly all come from the Iberian Peninsula. There are nearly 2.300 reptiles, half from Spain and the rest from America and Africa. With more than 14.000 specimens, mostly from Spain, birds make up the largest part of the Chordate collection. Bird collection contains specimens from Equatorial Guinea, Ecuador and Vietnam. The mammal collection (more than 5.000 specimens) is largely a study collection. Half of the mammals in the collection come from fieldwork carried out on the Iberian Peninsula. Highlights include the collection of African mammals, with a few American and Asiatic mammals.

Overall information

Strengths

1- Preventive preservation of collections: analyses and monitoring of environmental conditions, 2- Catalogue completed. 3- Loan and consultation are accepted for researchers.

How to cite

Colección de Cordados, MCNB

Usage restrictions

1- Use of specimens of protected by law species , 2- To obtain samples by molecular analyses.

Taxonomic coverage

Scientific names

Agnatha, Amphibia, Aves, Chondrichthyes, Chordata, Mammalia, Osteichthyes, Reptilia.

Common names

anfibios, aves, cordados, lampreas, mamíferos, peces, rays, tiburones, vertebrados.

Geospatial coverage

algunos/as Ecuador, algunos/as Guinea Ecuatorial, principalmente noreste de la Península Ibérica, algunos/as resto del mundo, algunos/as Vietnam.

Temporal location

Temporal coverage

todo(s) taxón existente.

Datasets of the collection/database

Types of objects

algunos/as huesos, algunos/as huevos, algunos/as nidos, principalmente organismos enteros, algunos/as pieles, algunos/as plumas.

Types of datasets

algunos/as observaciones, principalmente Preservados.

Conservation method

algunos/as alcohol, algunos/as formol, algunos/as montado, algunos/as secado.

Digitalization

Nº of copies / records

34.429

Nº of species

2500

Percentage of computerization

100

Does it include Type specimens?

No

Map of Specimens

Access to datasets

  • Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona: MCNB-Cord