| Museu Nacional/UFRJ | |
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 Main palace of Museu Nacional before the fire, frontal view | |
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Code |
MNRJ |
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City |
Rio de Janeiro |
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Country |
Brazil |
The Museu Nacional, Rio, houses the most important Opiliones collection on the New World and the second of the world.
Type specimen catalogues[]
2018 fire[]
Fire in the MNRJ, September 2, 2018. Photo (c) Paulo Márcio Costa.
In September 2, 2018, a fire burned to the ground the palace of MNRJ, destroying entirely the arachnological collection (Kury, Giupponi & Mendes, 2018)[3]. As of May, 2019, the rebuilding of the collection is in course [1].
Statistics of Opiliones[]
- total # specimens: 42,300 as of 2017
- total # lots: 9,700
- sp Opiliones: ca. 1600
- type lots: ca. 1000
- sp. Opiliones represented by type material: 524 (as of 2014)
Address[]
MNRJ: Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro, Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista, s/n, São Cristóvão, 20.942 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Curator[]
Adriano B. Kury - since 1996
Type material of[]
- Cândido F. de Mello-Leitão
- Benedicto Soares
- Helia Soares
- Adriano B. Kury
- Amanda Mendes
- Osvaldo Villarreal
- Abel Pérez-González
- Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha
- Marcos R. Hara
- Humberto Yamaguti
- Márcio B. DaSilva
- Miguel Medrano
- Andrés García
- Rafael Carvalho
References[]
- ↑ Silva-Moreira, T., Baptista, R.L.C., Kury, A.B., Giupponi, A.P.L., Buckup, E.E. & Brescovit, A.D. (2010) Annotated check list of Arachnida type specimens deposited in the Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro. II - Araneae. Zootaxa, 2588: 1-91.
- ↑ Kury, A.B. & Nogueira, André L.C., 1999. Annotated check list of type specimens of Arachnida in the Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, I. Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones and Solifugae. Publicações Avulsas do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, 77: 1-19.
- ↑ Kury, A.B., Giupponi, A.P.L. & Mendes, A.C. (2018) Immolation of Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro – unforgettable fire and irreplaceable loss. Journal of Arachnology, 46 (3): 556–558.