La colección de vertebrados del Departamento de Zoología de la Universidad de Sevilla: documentación, conservación y difusión

Abstract

The vertebrate collection of the Department of Zoology of the Faculty of Biology is part of the Educational Heritage of the University of Seville and has a high faunistic and museum value.
It is composed of some 470 species (naturalized, dissected or preserved in fluid) along with mate-rial integrate into the study of animal architecture. There are exotic, vulnerable, and even some endangered species. In this collection part of the material of an old Natural History Museum of the University of Seville, which was very important in the nineteenth century, still remains well pre-served.