Museum of Zoology

Malacology

Beside the molluscs our section is in charge of the collections Chelicerata, Myriapoda, Crustacea, Echinodermata, and Tunicata.

Our research contributes to the Research Field Biodiversity and Systematics.

Animal Groups in our Collection

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Pencil urchin
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Cuban shore crab
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Wasp spider

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Collection

The mollusc collection houses approximately 1 million specimens of Gastropoda, Bivalvia, Cephalopoda, Polyplacophora, and Scaphopoda.

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Research

The main research is on systematics and taxonomy of Palaearctic lymnaeid freshwater snails (Gastropoda: Basommatophora: Lymnaeidae). A more regional based part of research is the monitoring of land- and freshwater molluscs in Saxony.

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Team

Malacology Dresden

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Publications

Section Malacology, Senckenberg Dresden

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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).

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