The collection of Foraminifera has mainly specimensoccurring in the Brazilian continental margin, although it has also material coming from other countries. We have more than 241,460 studied and identified foraminifers, belonging to 700 species. The collection is under digitization. Sample collections are available in more than 1587card slides (plummercell slides) with the specimens identified in species and genus level. The collections are dry mounted according the technical norms used for the group. The collection is mainly driven to researchers of national and foreign institutions, people working with biological, environmental and geological topics as well asgraduation and master degree students.

Online since: 19/12/2013
Last update: 25/04/2016

Conditions for using the data

The information made available on the specimens can be used for scientific and applied research since they have previous authorization and with the institution´s citation.

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Contacts

Director or head of department:
Mário Portugal Pederneiras
Curator:
Sibelle Trevisan Disaró
stdisaro@ufpr.br
Biologist:
Elis Regina Ribas
elis_ribas@yahoo.com.br