Catalogue of the type specimens deposited in the Mollusca Collection of the Museu Nacional / UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Pimenta, Alexandre Dias, Monteiro, Júlio César, Barbosa, André Favaretto, Salgado, Norma Campos, Coelho, Arnaldo Campos Dos Santos (2014): Catalogue of the type specimens deposited in the Mollusca Collection of the Museu Nacional / UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Zootaxa 3780 (1): 51-107, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3780.1.3

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A curatorial revision of the type specimens deposited in the Mollusca Collection of the Museu Nacional / UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (MNRJ) revealed the existence of 518 lots of type specimens (holotypes, neotypes, syntypes and paratypes) for 285 names of molluscan taxa from 88 families, including 247 gastropods, 30 bivalves, three cephalopods and five scaphopods. A total of 106 holotypes and one neotype are deposited in the MNRJ. Type material for ten nominal taxa described as being deposited in the MNRJ was not located; the probable reasons are discussed. Some previously published erroneous information about types in the MNRJ is rectified. A total of 37 type specimens are illustrated.

Key words: types, malacological collection, mollusc, malacology, nomenclature

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