Project:BB|2260

Title
Zoological Collections: Mollusca (Molluscs), general collection and Ph. Dautzenberg collection
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URL
http://193.190.234.7/bch-cbd/mollusca.htm
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Abstract

The recent molluscs collection at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences is one of the major world malacological collections, with an estimated 9 million specimens arranged in more than 700.000 samples.This collection is for practical and historical reasons subdivided in a general collection and the Ph. Dautzenberg collection.

Keywords

marine, freshwater, brackish water, terrestrial, dead collections, shells, conchyliology, tropical Africa, N-Africa, Lake Tanganyika, Mbizi, Zaïre, Papua New Guinea, Indian Ocean Islands, Red Sea, Antarctics, North Sea, Belgium, Europe, C-Africa, Metazoa, Mollusca, Invertebrata

People

Name Role Start End
Massin, Claude member
Backeljau, Thierry member
Van Goethem, Jackie promotor

Orgunits

Name Role Start End
Malacology unknown

created:2011-12-14 14:18:59 UTC, source:biodiv

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