Ichthyology

Collection

The Ichthyology collection at the Senckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden was established as a unit in 1880 and has been led by a curator since 1961. The collection comprises (1) the surviving parts of the old Dresden collection, (2) parts of the former collection of the University of Leipzig, which was moved to Dresden in the 1970s, and (3) collections made by the previous curators and associated ichthyologists.

Research

Fish research in the Ichthyology Sectionin Dresden focuses on comparative anatomy, phylogenetics, systematics and taxonomy of actinopterygian fishes. The research topics we address range from general questions of evolutionary biology and homology and studies of higher level relationships to basal problems in taxonomy and systematics of various fish groups.

Publications

Ichthyology Team

Museum of Zoology

The Museum of Zoology in Dresden, with more than 6 million specimens, is one of the approximately 10 large zoological collections of Germany. The Dresden collections originate from all over the globe, and their international significance is due not least to the abundance of name-bearing types represented (holotypes, lectotypes and syntypes of some 15,000 species and subspecies; if paratypes and paralectotypes are considered, about 53,000 type specimens).