Museu Darder de Banyoles
Citation
Gratacós Teixidor G, Feo Quer C (2019). Museu Darder de Banyoles. Version 2.1. Darder Natural History Museum of Banyoles. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15470/wxaleu accessed via GBIF.org on 2020-05-25.Description
Darder Museum of Banyoles was inaugurated on 22 October 1916. Originally, the specimens of the Museum came from the donation of the natural history collections of Francesc Darder Llimona to the town of Banyoles. The collection includes original pieces of dissected animals from around the world, pieces of anthropology, skulls, fetus, human skins, and educational materials related to the natural sciences. The museum's collection also grew up with donations of other people who offered some of their natural sciences collections or objects to the Museum. Nowadays, the Museum collection reaches approximately to 20,000 objects or specimens. Also, it includes different general type collections: botanical, fossils, minerals, insects, molluscs, skeletons and dissected animals.Taxonomic Coverages
The collections contain a wide taxonomic coverage of the seguents class:
Actinopterygii, Amphibia, Anthozoa, Arachnida, Asteroidea, Aves, Bivalvia, Chilopoda, Chondrichthyes, Diplopoda, Florideophycidae, Gastropoda, Insecta, Malacostraca, Mammalia, Merostomata, Reptilia and Scyphozoa.
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Bivalviarank: class
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Florideophycidaerank: class
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Malacostracarank: class
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Scyphozoarank: class
Geographic Coverages
Darder Museum's collections have specimens of wildlife collected worldwide, although most have been collected in Spain. Collections of mammals, birds, mollusks, fish, and plants contain species from America like the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, El Salvador, .... or from Asia as Taiwan, India, China, Japan and the Philippines; from Africa as Algeria, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Ghana, Madagascar, ... and from Europe such as France and UK.
Bibliographic Citations
Contacts
Georgina Gratacós Teixidororiginator
position: Curator
Museu Darder de Banyoles
Pl. Estudis, 2
Banyoles
17820
Catalunya/Girona
ES
Telephone: 972574467
email: ggratacos@ajbanyoles.org
homepage: http://www.museusdebanyoles.cat/
Georgina Gratacós Teixidor
metadata author
position: Curator
Museu Darder de Banyoles
Pl. Estudis, 2
Banyoles
17820
Catalunya/Girona
ES
Telephone: 972574467
email: ggratacos@ajbanyoles.org
homepage: http://www.museusdebanyoles.cat/
Carles Feo Quer
metadata author
position: Technician
Museu Darder de Banyoles
Pl. Estudis, 2
Banyoles
17820
Catalunya/Girona
ES
email: carlesfeo@gmail.com
homepage: http://carlesfeo.blogspot.com.es/
userId: https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=https://es.linkedin.com/in/carlesfeoquer
Carles Feo Quer
user
position: Technician
Consorci de l'Estany
email: carlesfeo@gmail.com
Georgina Gratacós Teixidor
administrative point of contact
position: Curator
Museu Darder de Banyoles
Pl. Estudis, 2
Banyoles
17820
Catalunya/Girona
ES
Telephone: 972574467
email: ggratacos@ajbanyoles.org
homepage: http://www.museusdebanyoles.cat/