<strong>Abstract</strong> A survey was designed to assess the status of the collections of recent mammals in Italy through 79 questionnaires mailed to the main University institutions, municipal, provincial or regional museums and other institutions (including some private collections). We received 58 questionnaires (return rate of 73%). The minimum number of specimens in recent mammal collections in Italy is 161,268 (70% are in Italian collections and 30% in exotic ones). Most of these specimens are concentrated in a quarter of the collections. Taxidermy is the main preservation technique, above all in exotic collections (84%). 82% of the exotic collections date back to the 19th century, ...
Natural History Museums are places of scientific dissemination and informal education, and have a fu...
We present the results of a survey in 11 Italian bodies hosting large felids, with the aim of highli...
Summary- A recently edited volume on the Italian primatological collections highlighted a rather dif...
The twentieth century saw the decline of interest toward museum collections and an increased support...
ABSTRACT- The opportunities offered to scientific research by living mammal collections are generall...
<strong>Abstract</strong> <strong>Materials of Altobello collection in the Zoolog...
The latest reorganization of the Vertebrate collections preserved at the “Pietro Doderlein” Museum o...
<strong>Abstract</strong> <strong>Papers on mammalogy published on the main Itali...
Checklists represent a basic tool for conservation and management of regional faunas. However, our k...
For more than half a century, little taxonomic revisionary work has been directed towards extant Eur...
Papers on mammalogy published on the main Italian journals from 1980 to 2003: trends and analysis. ...
<strong>Abstract</strong> Over 50 years after the basic work of Gulino (1938) on the &l...
Information about mammal species richness is scarce from the site Poggi di Prata (Central Italy). We...
This work is dealing with a list of 174 species of wild mammals breeding at the Roman zoo in eighty ...
Although there are various checklists of Italian mammals, there is not yet a synthesis of those mamm...
Natural History Museums are places of scientific dissemination and informal education, and have a fu...
We present the results of a survey in 11 Italian bodies hosting large felids, with the aim of highli...
Summary- A recently edited volume on the Italian primatological collections highlighted a rather dif...
The twentieth century saw the decline of interest toward museum collections and an increased support...
ABSTRACT- The opportunities offered to scientific research by living mammal collections are generall...
<strong>Abstract</strong> <strong>Materials of Altobello collection in the Zoolog...
The latest reorganization of the Vertebrate collections preserved at the “Pietro Doderlein” Museum o...
<strong>Abstract</strong> <strong>Papers on mammalogy published on the main Itali...
Checklists represent a basic tool for conservation and management of regional faunas. However, our k...
For more than half a century, little taxonomic revisionary work has been directed towards extant Eur...
Papers on mammalogy published on the main Italian journals from 1980 to 2003: trends and analysis. ...
<strong>Abstract</strong> Over 50 years after the basic work of Gulino (1938) on the &l...
Information about mammal species richness is scarce from the site Poggi di Prata (Central Italy). We...
This work is dealing with a list of 174 species of wild mammals breeding at the Roman zoo in eighty ...
Although there are various checklists of Italian mammals, there is not yet a synthesis of those mamm...
Natural History Museums are places of scientific dissemination and informal education, and have a fu...
We present the results of a survey in 11 Italian bodies hosting large felids, with the aim of highli...
Summary- A recently edited volume on the Italian primatological collections highlighted a rather dif...