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

Collection code

MZUF-CAI

Alternative Codes

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Collection Type

Preserved Organisms

Preservation Type

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Specimen count

3,500

Specimens in GBIF

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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

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

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Catalog URL

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API URLs

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Contacts

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Location

Address: Via Romana, 17 (Palazzo Torrigiani)
City: Firenze
Province: [TOSCANA] Firenze (FI)
Postal Code: IT-50125
Country: IT

Accession Status

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Personal Collection

Active Collection

Yes

Created

2025-11-20 (14:00:36)

Modified

2026-02-17 (14:17:04)

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”

Credits

DiSSCo-ITINERIS Metadata Catalog

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

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