MUSSELS AND SNAILS Mollusca
The snail and mussel collection at the Natural History Museum Basel goes back to the activities of various collectors in the 19th and 20th centuries. In the middle of the last century, Lothar Focart was the Museum's last mollusc researcher (malacologist). The collection has been extensively used and expanded thanks to his work.
The mollusc collection contains original material of 19th century authors such as Stefano Moricand, C. B. Adams, Sauveur Petit de la Saussaye and Otto Franz von Möllendorff. Noteworthy is the material of the expeditions to Sulawesi (formerly Celebes) by Fritz and Paul Sarasin, as well as collections from New Caledonia, New Guinea and other Melanesian islands.
The Opistobranchier collection comes mainly from Hans-Rudolf Haefelfinger (Basel). The largest part was collected in Banyuls sur Mer (types also from Villefranche and Plymouth).
Bivalvia: 13 entries 10 taxa
Gastropoda: 1153 entries 768 taxa
Opistobranchia: 13 entries 9 taxa
Cephalopoda: 1 entry 1 taxa
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