PERSONAL DE APOYO
ALVAREZ Stella Maris
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
The case of the donated collection of rodents (Ctenomys) to the Félix de Azara Natural History Foundation
Autor/es:
STELLA MARIS ALVAREZ
Lugar:
Londres
Reunión:
Conferencia; NatSCA Conservation Twitter Conference (#NatSCAConservation); 2021
Institución organizadora:
Natural Sciences Collections Association (NatSCA)
Resumen:
The Félix de Azara Natural History Foundation houses eleven collections of natural history and anthropology. One of the most important is the mammalogy collection, which has more than 14,000 specidens, including 85 type specimens (10 belonging to the rodent genus Ctenomys). We show preventive conservation and catalogue tasks that are currently being carried out on the collection of the genus Ctenomys. We are working with 2,000 specimens coming from several localities at South America. The collection has skins and skeletons that were donated by Elio Massoia in 2006 and Julio Rafael Contreras in 2005. This fact confronts us with the complexity of understanding the criterion of each original collector and the information associated with the specimens in their catalogs, labels, and field notes. Reconciling all this data with documentation and actual conservation criteria is a difficult task.
