Wet preparations
Front row:
Musk octopus Eledone moschata (Lamarck, 1798).
Preparation of the musculature of a female musk octopus, inventory number ZMUG 27500
Flying squid Ommastrepes bartramii, ♀ , (Lesueur, 1821).
Hoffmann, 1865, Java, inventory number ZMUG 27515
Burbot Lota lota (Linnaeus, 1758)
Unknown collector, inventory number ZMUG 30213
Coral Corallium rubrum (Linnaeus, 1758)
Unknown collector, Mediterranean Sea, inventory number ZMUG 26947
Shaggy sea bark Electra pilosa (Linnaeus, 1767)
Hahn, 1858, Norderney, inventory number ZMUG 27111
Seahorse Hippocampus spec.
Unknown collector, inventory number ZMUG 30211
Crown snail Melongena spec.
JG, 1885, inventory number ZMUG 27540
Back row:
Purple pilgrim mussel Argopecten purpuratus (Lamarck, 1819).
Bürger, 1906, Chile, inventory number 2528
Alpine strudel worm Crenobia alpina (Dana, 1766)
Unknown collector, 1909, Göttingen, inventory number ZMUG 2282
Manyborster worm of the annelid class Maldanella grossa (Baird, 1871)
Susanna Cove, 1899, Strait of Magellan, Chile, inventory number ZMUG 27349
Ice star Marthasterias glacialis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Unknown collector, 1860, Nice, inventory number, ZMUG 30212
Skulls of wild cats
African golden cat Profelis aurata (Temminck, 1827)
Unknown collector, inventory number ZMUG 161
Lion Panthera leo (Linnaeus, 1758)
Unknown collector, inventory number ZMUG 23425
Lynx Lynx (Linnaeus, 1758)
Unknown collector, inventory number ZMUG 20659
Leopard Panthera pardus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Unknown collector, inventory number ZMUG 1863
Varanus varius
Shaw / 1790 / unknown collector
Compilation of different species of butterflies and moths
ZMUG 11733 / Attacus atlas (Linnaeus, 1758) / Taiwan
ZMUG 24242 / Troides priamus urvillianus (Guérin-Méneville, 1830) / Priam's birdwing / Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Boungaville Island
ZMUG 24286 / Atrophaneura hector (Linnaeus,1758) / Common name: Crimson Rose / India, Bangalore
ZMUG 24240 / Troides priamus poseidon (Rothschild, 1895) / New Guinea Birdwing / New Guinea
ZMUG 23929 / Papilio ulysses Linnaeus, 1785 / Ulysses Swallowtail / New Guinea
ZMUG 23917 / Papilio thoas Linnaeus,1771 / Thoas Swallowtail / America
ZMUG 30251 / Morpho sp. / (South America)
ZMUG 30252 / Daphnis nerii (Linnaeus, 1758) / Oleander hawk moth / (Europe/Asia/Africa)
Biodiversity Museum Zoological Collection
The collections of the Biodiversity Museum go back to the "Königliches Academische Museum Göttingen" (Royal Academic Museum Göttingen), which was founded in 1773 to hold the collections of Christian Wilhelm Büttner (1716-1801) after their purchase. In the following years, the completely disorganised collection was then arranged and catalogued by the then sub-supervisor Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752-1840). It was also Blumenbach who increased the collections extensively in the following decades through purchases and donations. Only a few objects from these beginnings remain in the Biodiversity Museum today.
