| Autor: |
Ceraco LMP; CIBIO; Centro de Investigao em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genticos; InBIO Laboratrio Associado; Campus de Vairo; Universidade do Porto; 4485-661 Vairo; Portugal; BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics; Biodiversity and Land Planning; CIBIO; Campus de Vairo; 4485-661; Vairo; Portugal; Departamento de Vertebrados; Museu Nacional; Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Quinta da Boavista; So Cristvo; 20940-040 Rio de Janeiro; Brasil; Section of Amphibians and Reptiles; Carnegie Museum of Natural History; 4400 Forbes Avenue; Pittsburgh PA; 15213; USA. luisceriaco@gmail.com., Santos BS; CIBIO; Centro de Investigao em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genticos; InBIO Laboratrio Associado; Campus de Vairo; Universidade do Porto; 4485-661 Vairo; Portugal; BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics; Biodiversity and Land Planning; CIBIO; Campus de Vairo; 4485-661; Vairo; Portugal; Departamento de Biologia; Faculdade de Cincias da Universidade do Porto; Rua do Campo Alegre 1021; 4169-007 Porto; Portugal. brunascesantos@gmail.com., Semedo TBF; CIBIO; Centro de Investigao em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genticos; InBIO Laboratrio Associado; Campus de Vairo; Universidade do Porto; 4485-661 Vairo; Portugal; BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics; Biodiversity and Land Planning; CIBIO; Campus de Vairo; 4485-661; Vairo; Portugal; Departamento de Biologia; Faculdade de Cincias da Universidade do Porto; Rua do Campo Alegre 1021; 4169-007 Porto; Portugal. thiagosemedo@gmail.com., Garcia LC; Departamento de Vertebrados; Museu Nacional; Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Quinta da Boavista; So Cristvo; 20940-040 Rio de Janeiro; Brasil. canezlucas@gmail.com., Moreira CR; Departamento de Vertebrados; Museu Nacional; Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Quinta da Boavista; So Cristvo; 20940-040 Rio de Janeiro; Brasil. moreira.c.r@gmail.com. |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
Zootaxa [Zootaxa] 2023 Dec 27; Vol. 5391 (1), pp. 1-85. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Dec 27. |
| DOI: |
10.11646/zootaxa.5391.1.1 |
| Abstrakt: |
Two Portuguese institutions, the Museu Maynense da Academia das Cincias de Lisboa (ACL), and the Museu da Cincia da Universidade de Coimbra (MCUC), house a collection of 85 dried fish specimens prepared in what can be called a fish-herbaria following a process similar to that developed by the Dutch naturalist Johan Frederic Gronovius (16901762). These specimens date back to the late eighteenth century and represent Brazilian taxa. Previous authors assumed that they were part of the collections amassed by the Brazilian-Portuguese naturalist Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira (17561815) during his philosophical voyage to the Amazon. Here we present a review of these specimens, suggesting that they belonged to Friar Jos Mariano da Conceio Veloso (17421811) and describe the history of dispersal of these collections up the present day. A total of 58 species in 50 genera, 32 families and 19 orders are represented in the collection. Only 8.6% of these specimens represent freshwater species, while 91.4% are marine or brackish water species. The present known distribution of these taxa is focused on southwestern Brazil, which agrees with the area where Veloso collected natural history specimens. A good percentage of the species were undescribed at the time Veloso collected them, and had they been published by him, would have had priority over species described decades later by famous eighteenth and nineteenth century ichthyologists. We also present a brief discussion on the challenges and opportunities of studying historical natural history specimens, with special focus on those amassed during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century by Brazilian-Portuguese naturalists. |
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