Abstract
<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT';">This paper summarizes more than four decades of cetacean research data collected by the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano and, between 1986 and 2003, by the Centro Studi Cetacei of the Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali. It is the result of the collaboration among scientists of several Italian museums. A detailed analysis concerning the amount and taxonomic representative</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT';">- </span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT';">ness of the extant cetacean collections in Italian naturalistic museums and analogous institutions up until and including 2007 has been carried out. Adequately preserved and anatomically most significant specimens only have been taken into consideration. On the whole 1033 specimens representing 41 species are considered herein. They are housed in 53 institutions, of which the following ones hold the most important collections: the museums of Calci (Pisa), Genova, Firenze, Milano, Roma Zoology, </span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT';">Siena, Comiso and Napoli. All the surveyed institutions are listed, with a short introduction about their material and an inven</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT';">- </span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT';">tory of it. Specimens are then arranged in systematic order and some further data are provided in a table for each species. Such tables report the items of each museum with regard to quantity, preserva</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT';">- </span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT';">tion techniques and, whenever possible, collecting data. Finally, a comparative analysis of the results is presented under multiple profiles: historical, preservation techniques, suitability of the specimens for research, place of origin, and the importance of the Italian cetacean collections for research and education. </span></p><p> </p></div></div></div>
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