Description
The collection includes species from all over the world. In 2014 the collection included about 26500 amphibians; it mostly increased at the end of 1800, due to Enrico Hillyer Giglioli's work, and in the second part of the twentieth century, as a result of the studies of Bendetto Lanza and his colleagues. The largest part of the amphibian collection consists of Italian specimens, with rich series of individuals of the same species, but deriving from different localities, important for the study of the species distribution and variability. However, frogs and toads from other regions of the world are also well represented, with taxa belonging to almost all the existing families.
Purposes
This is a sub-collection of https://registry.gbif.org/collection/7856d07e-2e9b-4b56-a524-c2e1b830e40a. Information updated thanks to the internal University of Florence Museal System (UNIFI-SMA) digitization dashboard, compiled in October 2021.
