Abstract
A complete catalogue of reptiles found in Comunidad de Madrid (Spain) is provided in this paper. The catalogue is taxonomically indexed and listed in alphabetical order including all basic data. It includes all information available in card files and old collection books of the MNCN. We have confirmed which reptiles in the current collection appear as being collected in Madrid, in old records, catalogue books and collection cards in the collection of amphibians and reptiles of the MNCN. The information of these old databases has been verified and mistakes corrected. As a consequence of this revision, the existence of 2237 specimens of reptiles originating in the above-indicated area and exisincluded in 1039 computer records, has been confirmed as of 30 November 2005. Among the oldest specimens included in the collection are some collected by the founding father of Spanish herpetology (Eduardo Bosca y Casanoves) or by a member of the Pacific Scientific Commission (Francisco de P. Martinez y Saez) and deposited in the MNCN more than 140 years ago. These specimens and their data are preserved at the MNCN as part of our common National Heritage, for future generations of researchers as witnesses of the past and present biodiversity. Distribution areas for several species have been extended.
Highlights
) preserved in the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales A complete catalogue of reptiles found in Comunidad de Madrid (Spain) is provided in this paper
Among the oldest specimens included in the collection are some collected by the founding father of Spanish herpetology (Eduardo Boscá y Casanoves) or by a member of the Pacific Scientific Commission
Martínez y Sáez) and deposited in the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN) more than 140 years ago. These specimens and their data are preserved at the MNCN as part of our common National Heritage, for future generations of researchers as witnesses of the past and present biodiversity
Summary
La información recogida en las etiquetas originales confeccionadas por los colectores, así como la existente en las fichas antiguas que había en la colección, fue el material de partida para la elaboración del presente trabajo. Por tanto la recuperación (a lo largo de todos estos años) de la información de la que eran portadores los ejemplares, ha sido en muchos casos una tarea ardua y complicada. Hasta el año 2000 los nuevos datos descubiertos en el archivo, libros de catálogo o fichas de colección antiguas, se incluían directamente en las bases de datos, por lo que una parte importante de la información añadida hasta esa fecha no es fácil de diferenciar de la que existía previamente al estudio y documentación moderno de las colecciones. Dentro de éstos documentos desaparecidos, cabría mencionar el catálogo manuscrito de los reptiles de la colección del Real Gabinete de Historia Natural, obra desaparecida y confeccionada en torno a 1822 por Eduardo Villanova, que fue uno de los méritos que le reconocieron para nombrarle Conservador, del entonces Real Museo de Historia Natural, en 1839 (Barreiro, 1992: 166-167)
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