Natural History Museum Aarhus Malacology Collection

doi:10.15468/htttws

Natural History Museum Aarhus Malacology Collection

Citation

Natural History Museum Aarhus (2024). Natural History Museum Aarhus Malacology Collection. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/htttws accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-12.

Description

The malacology collection at the Natural History Museum of Aarhus, Denmark contains more than 40.000 specimens (Corresponds to about 250.000 individuals) of dry preserved shells of mollusks collected globally. The collection represents nearly 10.000 species from terrestrial, marine and freshwater habitats including specimen collected at Danish expeditions such as the Ingolf expedition in 1895-1896 and the Galathea expeditions in 1845-1847 and 1950-1952. The malacology collection was fully digitized in 2019.

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Contacts

Kent Olsen
curator
position: Curator
Natural History Museum Aarhus
Telephone: +45 40 27 20 30
email: kent@molslab.dk
homepage: https://www.naturhistoriskmuseum.dk/natural-history-museum-aarhus/about/employees/videnskabelige-medarbejdere/kent-olsen

Hans Viborg Kristensen
metadata author
position: Collections manager
Natural History Museum Aarhus
Telephone: +45 40 27 13 73
email: hans@nathist.dk
homepage: https://www.naturhistoriskmuseum.dk/om-museet/medarbejdere/videnskab/hans-viborg-kristensen

Fedor Alexander Steeman
distributor
position: Data Coordinator
Natural History Museum of Denmark
Universitetsparken 15
Copenhagen
2100
Capital Region of Denmark
DK
Telephone: +45 22369539
email: fedor.steeman@snm.ku.dk
homepage: https://snm.ku.dk/english/
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2153-8104