Evertebrata Varia

Team

The position of the curator of the section is vacant since January 2022. The section’s collections are temporarily supervised by the team from the Malacology Section.

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Stechapparat einer männlichen Zecke (Holzbock) Ixodes ricinus, Aufnahme mit dem Rasterelektronenmikroskop, A.Weck-Heimann, Senckenberg Dresden

Research

As a co-working member of an Onychophora research project directed by Dr Georg Mayer, University of Leipzig and most notably Ivo de Sena Oliveira, Andreas Weck-Heimann was able to focus on the disregarded morphological diversity of velvet worms (Onychophora) by use of the scanning electron microscope ZEISS EVO 50 in operation at the Senckenberg Institute in Dresden .

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A. B. Meyer-Bau, Außenansicht, Foto F. Höhler, 2003

Senckenberg Natural History Collections

Since January 1, 2009 the group formerly known as the State Natural History Collections of Dresden has been a member of the Senckenberg – Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research, together with the Zoology Museum and the Museum for Mineralogy and Geology. The roots of the Dresden Natural History Collections extend back into the 16th century.

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Museum of Zoology

The Museum of Zoology in Dresden, with more than 6 million specimens, is one of the approximately 10 large zoological collections of Germany. The Dresden collections originate from all over the globe, and their international significance is due not least to the abundance of name-bearing types represented (holotypes, lectotypes and syntypes of some 15,000 species and subspecies; if paratypes and paralectotypes are considered, about 53,000 type specimens).

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