Colección de moluscos "Alberto Martínez-Ortí", Museo Valenciano de Historia Natural
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Code
FETS-CMAM -
Registration date
23/08/2007 -
Update date
28/01/2008 - Download the sheet
Description
This collection integrates a total of 2000 lots that contain about 15000 specimens of 500 species of snails. It is the result of the research of Alberto Martínez Ortí and the basis of his Ph. D Thesis entitled: "Terrestrial testacean Mollusks of the Valencian Community". The most part of the collection is conserved in propilen phenoxetol. It also contains the holotype and 19 paratypes of the species Trochoidea (Xerocrassa) roblesi n. sp.Overall information
Strengths
1- Taxonomy of mollusks, 2- Conservation of endangered species, 3- Biogeography.
Access restrictions
The researches can request material in loan for their revision and study, previous application of a document emitted by the Museum.
Taxonomic coverage
Scientific names
todo(s) Gastropoda.
Common names
todo(s) caracoles, todo(s) moluscos.
Geospatial coverage
principalmente Comunidad Valenciana (España), algunos/as resto de la Península Ibérica.
Temporal location
Temporal coverage
todo(s) taxón existente.
Datasets of the collection/database
Types of objects
algunos/as conchas (colección), algunos/as organismos enteros.
Types of datasets
todo(s) Preservados.
Conservation method
algunos/as alcohol, algunos/as preparación microscópica, algunos/as secado.
Digitalization
Nº of copies / records
15.000
Nº of species
500
Does it include Type specimens?
No
Related Resources
Publications
- Moluscos testáceos terrestres de la Comunidad Valanciana, 1999 (Ph. D. Thesis)