Immolation of Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro – unforgettable fire and irreplaceable loss

Kury, Adriano B.; Giupponi, Alessandro P.L.; Mendes, Amanda Cruz

doi:10.1636/joa-s-18-094.1

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“…Despite this progress, infrastructure is still precarious in many collections. Recent losses of major zoological collections such as the Butantan Institute and the National Museum (Kumar 2010;Kury et al 2018) seemed to not affect the protection of collections since 33 herbaria do not have fire extinguishers and only nine reported the presence of smoke detectors-even though herbaria are highly flammable seeing that specimens are packed in paper materials. The presence of air conditioners in more than 100 collections (70 %) and annual fumigation in 50 % of them at least ensure proper conservation of the samples.…”

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Brazilian herbaria: an overview

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Herbaria represent irreplaceable repositories of biodiversity and are used to answer questions about conservation, ecology, systematics, and other sciences. In this sense, we characterize the infrastructure, human resources, and idiosyncrasies of Brazilian herbaria. To achieve this goal, curators were sent a structured and standardized questionnaire to gather information about herbaria. The Brazilian Herbaria Network listed 216 active herbaria in the year 2018, of which 139 answered the questionnaire. These herbaria hold 6,741,469 samples in their collections and more than 39,000 type samples. Most herbaria are in federal universities (40.28 %). Only 24 % of the curators considered that their herbarium is valued by their institutions and 52 % indicated inadequate storage areas. Only nine collections have smoke sensors. Our analysis showed that if an herbarium has an institutional policy the curator is 78 % more likely to consider its herbarium valued. Therefore, it is important for all herbaria to institute their policy. These numbers reflect the difficulty in maintaining herbaria, in many cases cared for only by its curator without institutional recognition and support. Despite recent losses in Brazilian natural history collections, herbaria are still threatened by a lack of basic infrastructure.

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“…comm. ; Kury et al 2018 ). The original description is poor for modern standards and it has no illustrations.…”

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Revision of the southern Andean genus Sadocus Sørensen, 1886 (Opiliones, Gonyleptidae, Pachylinae)

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Hara²,

Pinto‐da‐Rocha³

2021

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Species of the genus Sadocus Sørensen, 1886 are conspicuous gonyleptids that occur in Chile and Argentina. Here, the genus is revised for the first time and the cladistic analysis based on morphological characters does not corroborate its monophyly unless a phylogenetically unrelated species is excluded (explained further on). A new classification is proposed for the seven species left in the genus and considered valid, of the 13 nominal species previously recognized. Two out of the seven valid species are considered as species inquirendae: Sadocus allermayeri (Mello-Leitão, 1945) [= Carampangue allermayeri Mello-Leitão, 1945] and Sadocus nigronotatus (Mello-Leitão, 1943) [= Carampangue nigronotatum Mello-Leitão, 1943]. The following synonymies are proposed: Sadocus bicornis (Gervais, 1849) [original combination = Gonyleptes bicornis Gervais, 1849] is a junior synonym of Sadocus asperatus (Gervais, 1847) [= Gonyleptes asperatus Gervais, 1847]; Sadocus conspicillatus Roewer, 1913, Sadocus exceptionalis (Mello-Leitão, 1946) [= Araucanoleptes exceptionalis Mello-Leitão, 1946] and Sadocus guttatus Sørensen, 1902 are junior synonyms of the valid name Sadocus polyacanthus (Gervais, 1847) [= Gonyleptes polyacanthus Gervais, 1847]; and Sadocus calcar (Roewer, 1913) [= Lycomedes calcar Roewer, 1913] is a junior synonym of the valid name Gonyleptes horridus Kirby, 1819. Sadocus brasiliensis Soares & Soares, 1949 is not congeneric with Argentinean/Chilean species of the genus according to the cladistic analysis and is here synonymized with Discocyrtus catharinensis (Mello-Leitão, 1923 [= Sadocus catharinensis Mello-Leitão, 1923]).

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“…The material examined here is deposited in the Coleção de Invertebrados Subterrâneos de Lavras, Universidade Federal de Lavras (ISLA), Lavras, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. Some types designated here as destroyed were lost in the fire of September 2 nd , 2018, along with the bulk of the arachnological collection of the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ) (Kury et al 2018). There is no formal impediment per ICZN rules to describing a species whose holotype was lost before the publication of the description (see Krell & Marshall 2017 for a discussion on this topic).…”

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Three new species of Eusarcus Perty, 1833 (Opiliones, Gonyleptidae) from Brazilian caves

Júnior

Ázara

Ferreira

2021

EJT

861

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Three new species of Eusarcus Perty, 1833 are described from Brazilian caves, increasing the number of species of the genus to 40, eight of which have occurrences in caves. Eusarcus capixaba sp. nov. is described from Lapa do Sítio Paraíso Cave, municipality of Ecoporanga, state of Espírito Santo. Eusarcus marmoreus sp. nov. is described from Caverna Archimides Panssini Cave, municipality of Vargem Alta, state of Espírito Santo. Finally, Eusarcus xambioa sp. nov. is described from Caverna da Explosão Cave, municipality of Xambioá, state of Tocantins. Notes on the species’ habitats and a distribution map are also provided.

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Immolation of Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro – unforgettable fire and irreplaceable loss

Cited by 44 publications

References 6 publications

Brazilian herbaria: an overview

Brazilian herbaria: an overview

Revision of the southern Andean genus Sadocus Sørensen, 1886 (Opiliones, Gonyleptidae, Pachylinae)

Three new species of Eusarcus Perty, 1833 (Opiliones, Gonyleptidae) from Brazilian caves

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