The collection of birds from Mozambique at the Instituto de Investigacao Cientifica Tropical of the University of Lisbon (Portugal).

ABSTRACT: The Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical of the University of Lisbon, which resulted from the recent merger (in 2015) of the former state laboratory Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical in the University of Lisbon, holds an important collection of bird skins from the Portuguese-speaking African Countries (Angola, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe, Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde), gathered as a result of several scientific expeditions made during the colonial period. In this paper, the subset from Mozambique is described, which was taxonomically revised and georeferenced. It contains 1585 specimens belonging to 412 taxa, collected between 1932 and 1971, but mainly in 1948 (43% of specimens) and 1955 (30% of specimens). The collection covers all eleven provinces of the countr

SUBMITTER: Monteiro M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5674151 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature