The Mollusca Collection of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (CMIOC) started in 1948 by Wladimir Lobato Paraense and Newton Deslandes, by the Special Service of Public Health, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, and it is held by the Laboratory of Malacology of the Institute since 1976. Nowadays, the collection comprises more than 7,000 lots of shells and animals preserved from all the Americas – since Canada to Tierra del Fuego - as well as several countries from other continents. The collection includes lymnic molluscs of the families Planorbidae, Pomatiopsidae, Hydrobiidae, Lymnaeidae, Physidae, Ancylidae, Ampullariidae and Thiaridae (Gastropods); Corbiculidae and Sphariidae (Bivalvia), most of then preserved in Railliet-Henry solution, but also in 70% alcohol. With approximately 150 000 specimens of molluscs, the CMIOC is source for more than 150 publications of the Laboratory and supports various activities such as identification, loan of specimens, and qualification of human resources in medical malacology and systematics. The collection is arranged in catalog number sequence and it is fully databased. Since 2005, the CMIOC is faithful depository of genetic heritage within the Brazilian Ministry of Environment.

Online since: 03/05/2012
Last update: 02/08/2024

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Available in the 'Policy for the Access of Data and Information on the Biological Collections', attached to the Organization Guide for the Biological Collections of Fiocruz, which can be obtained on the <a target='_blank' href='https://portal.fiocruz.br/pt-br/content/cole%C3%A7%C3%B5es-biol%C3%B3gicas'> Biological Collections </a> web page from Fiocruz Portal.

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Contacts

Director or head of department:
José Paulo Gagliardi Leite
diretoria@ioc.fiocruz.br
Curator:
Elizângela Feitosa da Silva
efeitosa@ioc.fiocruz.br
Curator:
Silvana Aparecida Rogel Carvalho Thiengo
sthiengo@ioc.fiocruz.br