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COLLECTIONS OF RECENT MAMMALS IN CHINA

WANG Sung1, JING Shanke1, WANG Zonyi2   

  1. 1. Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica;
    2. Beijing Natural History Museum
  • Online:2011-11-23 Published:2011-11-22

中国兽类标本收藏概略

汪松1, 金善科1, 王宗祎2   

  1. 1. 中国科学院动物研究所;
    2. 北京自然博物馆

Abstract: There has been little information concerning collections of Recent mammals in China. In order to gather data on the general situation of the mammalian collections of China, two surveys have been made to most of the institutions, museums and universities in the various provinces of China except Taiwan. As the result of the first survey during mid-1970s,a distributional list of specimens in the order of species deposited in the institutions colaborating in the compilation of the mammalian volumes of FAUNA SINICA was compiled and distributed. The second survey conducted recently reveals the existence of 35 collections containing at least 66,196 specimens. Nineteen of these collections are found to containing more than 500 specimens,occupying 95.9% of the whole amount of specimens in collections of Recent mammals in China, while two collections containing more than 10,000 specimens and three collections containing more than 5,000 specimens occupying 68.9% of the whole amount of specimens in collections of Recent mammals in China.These collections are listed in descending order of size in the following table ( Table 1 ) .

摘要: 兽类标本收藏是兽类学的基础,直接关系到兽类学以及分类学、生态学、动物地理学、形态学、古生物学与进化、考古学等领域的进展。在旧中国,由于当时国内兽类学基本上是个空白领域,只有极个别研究机构及少数学校保存了少量标本,亦由于几经动乱,到新中国成立之时,已所剩无几。新中国建立以后,兽类学在中国才得到真正的发展。三十余年来,随着研究机构和高等学校的陆续建立和兽类调查研究工作的不断开展,兽类标本迅速发展,至今已初具规模。