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    Collezione ornitologica osteologica di Gino Caiani | Gino Caiani's osteological ornithological collection

    Collection code
    MZUF-CAI
    Alternative Codes
    n/a
    Collection Type
    Preserved Organisms
    Preservation Type
    n/a
    Specimen count
    3,500
    Specimens in GBIF
    n/a
    Description
    The collection includes a series of over 1600 skulls (approx. 480 species) and 1900 breastbones (approx. 570 species) representing almost all the Italian bird species, which were carefully prepared and studied by a Pisan taxidermist, Gino Caiani, in the late nineteenth-early twentieth century.
    Geographic Coverage
    Mediterranean Sea
    Taxonomic Coverage
    Bryozoa
    Temporal Coverage
    1881/1920
    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.
    Institution Name
    Sede della Specola del Museo di Storia naturale di Firenze | La Specola headquarter of the Natural History Museum in Florence
    Institution Code
    MSNF-SPE
    Home Page
    n/a
    Catalog URL
    n/a
    API URLs
    n/a
    Contacts
    n/a
    Location
    Address: Via Romana, 17 (Palazzo Torrigiani)
    City: Firenze
    Province: [TOSCANA] Firenze (FI)
    Postal Code: IT-50125
    Country: IT
    Accession Status
    n/a
    Personal Collection
    Yes
    Active Collection
    No
    Created
    2025-11-20 (14:00:36)
    Modified
    2025-11-20 (14:05:30)
    Datasets included

    IR0000032 - ITINERIS, Italian Integrated Environmental Research Infrastructures System (D.D. n. 130/2022 - CUP B53C22002150006) Funded by EU - Next Generation EU PNRR- Mission 4 “Education and Research” - Component 2: “From research to business” - Investment 3.1: “Fund for the realisation of an integrated system of research and innovation infrastructures”
      National Research Council of Italy. All Rights Reserved.
      Credits

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