Description
In the nineteenth century Adolfo Targioni Tozzetti and Angelo Senna studied the collection that included many specimens from Italy and from all over the world. In the 1960s parts of it was studied by the Turinese researcher Enrico Tortonese (1911-1987), who identified some new species. In the 1980s, campaigns on fishing vessels in the Sicilian Channel and southern Sardinia yielded great quantities of echinoderm specimens. In the same years, collaboration with the ISTIP of Leghorn, involving many embarkations on commercial fishing boats, produced large numbers of specimens, markedly expanding the collection from Tuscan waters. Completing the collection is an interesting group of specimens from Somalia and Kenya, which are still being studied. The collection includes approximately 1300 dried specimens, 1500 alcohol preserved specimens and 10 slides.
Purposes
This is a sub-collection of https://registry.gbif.org/collection/7856d07e-2e9b-4b56-a524-c2e1b830e40a. Partial published catalogues: Innocenti 2010, 2014a-b. Information updated thanks to the internal University of Florence Museal System (UNIFI-SMA) digitization dashboard, compiled in October 2021.
