Preservation Type
Sample Skeletonized, Sample Fluid Preserved, Sample Dried, Storage Indoors
Description
The herpetological collection includes species from all over the world. Early specimens, mainly turtles' shells, date from the eighteenth century and are no longer found in the museum. In 2014 the collection included about 40400 reptiles; 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 Italian component represents the most significant portion in the collection of reptiles. In particular, the Florentine museum has the largest collection of specimens deriving from virtually all the Italian and Corsican islands and islets. The collection is also very valuable on account of the huge number of specimens from missions in Somalia throughout the twentieth century.
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.
