Checklist of the Mammal Collection Preserved at the University of Palermo under the Framework of the National Biodiversity Future Center

The latest reorganization of the Vertebrate collections preserved at the “Pietro Doderlein” Museum of Zoology of the University of Palermo (Italy) has made it possible to draw up a check-list of the Mammal taxa present in the stuffed (M), fluid-preserved (ML) and anatomical (AN) collections. The int...

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Published in:Diversity (Basel) 2023-04, Vol.15 (4), p.518
Main Authors: Lo Brutto, Sabrina, Badalucco, Antonina, Iacovera, Rocco, Cilli, Elisabetta, Sarà, Maurizio
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animal populations
Archives & records
Biodiversity
Biological diversity
collection-holding universities
Endangered & extinct species
Environmental aspects
Environmental protection
mammalia
Mammals
museomics
Museums
Natural history
natural history museum
Physiological aspects
Statistics
Taxa
Taxonomy
tissue repositories
Vertebrates
Wildlife conservation
zoological collections
Zoology
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Summary:The latest reorganization of the Vertebrate collections preserved at the “Pietro Doderlein” Museum of Zoology of the University of Palermo (Italy) has made it possible to draw up a check-list of the Mammal taxa present in the stuffed (M), fluid-preserved (ML) and anatomical (AN) collections. The intervention was planned under the National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC) agenda, focused on the enhancement of Italian natural history museums. The growing interest in museum collections strongly demands databases available to the academic and policy world. In this paper, we record 679 specimens belonging to 157 specific taxa arranged in 58 families and 16 orders. Most of the species (75.1%) come from the Palaearctic Region (southern Mediterranean and North Africa), with a minority of taxa coming from the Afrotropical (7.8%), Neotropical (4.6%), Indo-Malayan (3.4%) and Australasian (1%) regions. Among the 24% of the taxa listed in the IUCN categories as threatened (VU, EN, CR, RE) the specimens of the Sicilian wolf, a regional endemic subspecies that became extinct in the last century, stand out. Even if small (
ISSN:1424-2818
1424-2818
DOI:10.3390/d15040518