Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona: MCNB-Art

Glòria Masó Ros1, Jordi Agulló Villaronga1, Berta Caballero López2

1 Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona, Passeig Picasso s/n, E-08003, Barcelona, Spain; 2 Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona, Passeig Picasso s/n, 08003, Barcelona, Spain

Corresponding author(s): Glòria Masó Ros (gmaso@bcn.cat), Jordi Agulló Villaronga (jagullov@bcn.cat)

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Resource Citation

Colección de Artrópodos, MCNB http://www.gbif.org/dataset/7a498826-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a

Abstract

The Arthropods collection is the Museum’s largest and most diverse collection as it contains more than half the total number of specimens held in the Museum collections overall. It is difficult to estimate the exact number of specimens but it is somewhere between 1,750,000 and 1,900,000.

The Artur Martorell and Daniel Müller collections were the first to be accessioned into the Martorell Museum in 1901 and 1903, respectively. Their historical and heritage value is therefore considerable, although they are of little scientific value because of the limited data available on their harvesting. The first scientifically rigorous collection was made over in 1916 by Ascensi Codina and is notable for its Coleoptera Cicindelinae (tiger beetles) from all over the world.

Many other important collections followed such as R. Zariquiey, L. Navàs or I. de Sagarra, but the one created as the result of the harvesting and scientific work done by Dr. Francesc Español. Who was curator and Director of the Museum from the 1930s to the 1990s, is especially worth mentioning, as it was a legacy of great scientific interest, containing a large number of new taxa –nearly all of which are still valid today– and new geographical sites. His activity in teaching and training new entomologists was also highly productive as his pupils continued his entomological research. It has thus become a considerably dynamic collection, receiving numerous consultations year after year as well as large numbers of items from Museum collaborators, which further expand its resources

Keywords: Occurrence

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.gbif.es/resource?r=mcnb-art

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: The collection includes examples of most of the different subphylum orders (Chelicerata, Crustacea, Uniramia) that comprise the phylum Arthropoda, although the Hexapoda group is the most amply represented with a considerable number of insects.
Taxonomic ranks
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata, Crustacea, Unirramia

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Most of the arthropods collection is sourced from the Palaearctic region but, due to historical reasons, the collections of some groups of Coleoptera, such as Anobiidae, Cicindelidae, Tenebrionidae and Neuroptera insects, contain representatives from nearly all of the world’s bioclimatic regions
Coordinates: 90°0'0''S and 90°0'0''N Latitude; 180°0'0''W and 180°0'0''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: 1879 - 2017

Natural collections description

Parent collection identifier: NA
Collection name: Colección de Artrópodos
Collection identifier: 7a498826-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a
Specimen preservation method: Pinned
Curatorial unit: Between 1750000 and 1900000 (Ejemplares)

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona: MCNB-Art
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Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.gbif.es/archive.do?r=mcnb-art
Publication date of data: 2019-12-20
Language: Spanish
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

External datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Taxo&Map
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Format name: CSV,KML,SHP
Distribution: http://taxomap.bioexplora.cat/web/index.php?lang=en

Dataset description
Object name: Zoological collections on line
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Format name: html 5
Distribution: http://zoologiaenlinia.museuciencies.cat/?lang=en

Metadata language: Spanish
Date of metadata creation: 2012-09-27
Hierarchy level: Dataset