MIZ PAS Zoological Collections

Dariusz Iwan; Dominika Mierzwa-Szymkowiak; Marcin Kamiński

doi:10.15468/hv2gbm

MIZ PAS Zoological Collections

Citation

Iwan D, Mierzwa-Szymkowiak D, Kamiński M (2024). MIZ PAS Zoological Collections. Version 1.3. Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/hv2gbm accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-01-26.

Description

The Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (MIZ PAS) hosts the largest zoological collection in Poland. The institution provides access to over 7,000,000 specimens, including 50,000 types, that have been collected since the 19th century in ecosystems around the World (e.g., Brazil, Ecuador, Egypt, Poland, Peru, Siberia, Korea, Vietnam). Particularly diverse holdings concern groups such as birds, mollusks, and arachnids due to the activity of several prominent Polish specialists such as Benedykt Dybowski, Jan Sztolcman, Władysław Taczanowski, Szymon Tenenbaum, and many others. The present dataset contains information acquired in recent digitization efforts and represents the taxonomic and geographic diversity of MIZ PAS collections.

Taxonomic Coverages

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Coleoptera
rank: order

Mollusca
rank: phylum

Arachnida
rank: class

Collembola
rank: class

Vertebrata
rank: subphylum

Pisces
rank: class

Orthoptera
rank: order

Geographic Coverages

Worldwide

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Dariusz Iwan
originator
position: Head of Museum
Zoological Museum of the Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Wilcza 64
Warszawa
00-679
Mazowieckie
PL
email: diwan@miiz.waw.pl
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0146-7916

Dominika Mierzwa-Szymkowiak
originator
position: Curator
Zoological Museum of the Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Wilcza 64
Warszawa
00-679
Mazowieckie
PL
email: dmierzwa@miiz.waw.pl
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5851-5619

Marcin Kamiński
originator
position: Associate Professor
Zoological Museum of the Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Wilcza 64
Warszawa
00-679
Mazowieckie
PL
email: mkaminski@miiz.waw.pl
homepage: http://www.kaminskientomo.org/
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2915-0614

Dariusz Iwan
metadata author
position: Head of Museum
Zoological Museum of the Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Wilcza 64
Warszawa
00-679
Mazowieckie
PL
email: diwan@miiz.waw.pl
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0146-7916

Dominika Mierzwa-Szymkowiak
metadata author
position: Curator
Zoological Museum of the Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Wilcza 64
Warszawa
00-679
Mazowieckie
PL
email: dmierzwa@miiz.waw.pl
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5851-5619

Marcin Kamiński
metadata author
position: Associate Professor
Zoological Museum of the Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Wilcza 64
Warszawa
00-679
Mazowieckie
PL
email: mkaminski@miiz.waw.pl
homepage: http://www.kaminskientomo.org/
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2915-0614

Piotr Tykarski
editor
position: assistant professor
Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw
Żwirki i Wigury 101
Warszawa
02-089
Mazowieckie
PL
email: p.tykarski@uw.edu.pl
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3259-8273

Marcin Kamiński
administrative point of contact
position: Associate Professor
Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Warszawa
Mazowieckie
PL
email: mkaminski@miiz.waw.pl
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2915-0614