The Fish Collection of the Museu de Zoologia "Prof. Adão José Cardoso" of the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) is composed of about 80.000 recorded specimens preserved in alcohol. The specimens are from several areas of Brazil but mostly form the Southeast (~52%); of these latter, ~70% are from the state of São Paulo. The collection has marine and freshwater fishes, and is being formed mostly by the efforts of researchers of the Unicamp. The cataloging and computing record of the collection is in progress with the use of the databank software MS-Access. The specimens and the data in the collection are available to accredited researchers, as well as to consultation by graduate and undergraduate students, duly authorized and accompanied by the curator or the technician responsible for the collection.

Online since: 10/11/2004
Last update: 29/08/2024

Conditions for using the data

Data from the Fish Collection are available to consultation and use according to strict observance to the followingconditions: a) any use of data in analyses or publications should mention, in the proper section (material and methods or acknowledgements) the dueindication of the provenance of the original data; b) the person in charge of the Fish Collection should be notified about the situations mentioned inthe precedent item; c) the data, even if partial, cannot be distributed without the written consent of the person in charge for the collection; d) acopy of any publication, distributed in printed or digital form, in which the data are mentioned, should be sent to the Museu de Zoologia; e) the usersand their institutions are accountable for the adequate use of the data. The Fish Collection cannot certify the accuracy of the identification ofspecimens and, in some cases, of the data associated to them.

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Contacts

Director or head of department:
Antonia Cecilia Zacagnini Amaral
ceamaral@unicamp.br
Curator:
Ivan Sazima
isazima@unicamp.br
Information technology:
Artur Nishibe Furegatti
anfibio@unicamp.br
Information technology:
Elizabeth Ribas Billo
erbilo@unicamp.br